"It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are."
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"I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know God's thoughts, the rest are details."
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"If it were possible for us to have so deep an insight into a man's character as shown both in inner and in outer actions, that every, even the least, incentive to these actions and all external occasions which affect them were so known to us that his future conduct could be predicted with as great a certainty as the occurrence of a solar or lunar eclipse, we could nevertheless still assert that the man is free."
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"Certainly one of the most enthralling things about human life is the recognition that we live in what, for practical purposes, is a universe without bounds."
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"The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be."
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"The experimenter who does not know what he is looking for will not understand what he finds."
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"The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree."
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"Water is the best of all things."
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"Everything you see has its roots in the unseen world. The forms may change, yet the essence remains the same. Every wonderful sight will vanish, every sweet word will fade, But do not be disheartened, The source they come from is eternal, growing, Branching out, giving new life and new joy. Why do you weep? The source is within you And this whole world is springing up from it."
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"Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account."
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"We see only the simple motion of descent, since that other circular one common to the Earth, the tower, and ourselves remains imperceptible. There remains perceptible to us only that of the stone, which is not shared by us; and, because of this, sense shows it as by a straight line, always parallel to the tower, which is built upright and perpendicular upon the terrestrial surface."
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"The farther the experiment is from theory, the closer it is to the Nobel Prize."
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"For me, the study of these laws is inseparable from a love of Nature in all its manifestations. The beauty of the basic laws of natural science, as revealed in the study of particles and of the cosmos, is allied to the litheness of a merganser diving in a pure Swedish lake, or the grace of a dolphin leaving shining trails at night in the Gulf of California."
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"We are redefining and we are restating our Socialism in terms of the scientific revolution ... The Britain that is going to be forged in the white heat of this revolution will be no place for restrictive practices or outdated methods on either side of industry."
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"We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more."
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"If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a nonworking cat."
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"Everything in nature is a puzzle until it finds its solution in man, who solves it in some way with God, and so completes the circle of creation."
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"In science, the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs."
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"Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality."
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"A Composition on the Piano"
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