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Deborah King Author
Physics

"I do find that Western medicine is more and more open to proving energetic concepts. Why not, because modern physics is 100 percent based on it."

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Christopher Hitchens Author, Critic, Journalist
Physics

"We have lived in a world where the discoveries of physics and genetics are far more awe-inspiring, as well as infinitely more liberating, than the claims of any religion."

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James Joseph Sylvester Mathematician
Physics

"The object of pure Physic[s] is the unfolding of the laws of the intelligible world; the object of pure Mathematic[s] that of unfolding the laws of human intelligence."

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Henry Adams Historian
Physics

"I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition as any one of the axioms of physics."

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Walter Gilbert Biochemist
Physics

"Biology will tell you a lot of things, but there are many that it can not explain and you need to look at physics instead."

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Elon Musk Entrepreneur, Business Magnate
Physics

"My background educationally is physics and economics, and I grew up in sort of an engineering environment - my father is an electromechanical engineer. And so there were lots of engineery things around me."

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Elon Musk Entrepreneur, Business Magnate
Physics

"Physics is really figuring out how to discover new things that are counterintuitive, like quantum mechanics. It's really counterintuitive."

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Edward Abbey Author, Environmentalist
Physics

"The basic science is not physics or mathematics but biology -- the study of life. We must learn to think both logically and bio-logically."

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