"A thought, even a possibility, can shatter and transform us."
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"Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system with their wonder and enthusiasm for science intact."
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"Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a mountain, gaining new and wider views, discovering unexpected connections between our starting points and its rich environment. But the point from which we started out still exists and can be seen, although it appears smaller and forms a tiny part of our broad view gained by the mastery of the obstacles on our adventurous way up."
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"When we think how narrow and devious this path of nature is, how dimly we can trace it, for all our lamps of science, and how from the darkness which girds it round great and terrible possibilities loom ever shadowly upwards, it is a bold and a confident man who will put a limit to the strange by-oaths into which the human spirit may wander."
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"[Geology] opens up such wide intellectual vistas and supplies a more perfectly unified and more comprehensive conception of nature than any other science."
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"It is with our entire past ... that we desire, will and act ... from this survival of the past it follows that consciousness cannot go through the same state twice. The circumstances may still be the same, but they will act no longer on the same person ... that is why our duration is irreversible."
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"We have genuflected before the god of science only to find that it has given us the atomic bomb, producing fears and anxieties that science can never mitigate."
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"Great is the power of steady misrepresentation; but the history of science shows that fortunately this power does not long endure."
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"It is harder to crack prejudice than an atom."
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"To have great poets, there must be great audiences."
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"It has been just so in all my inventions. The first step is an intuition-and comes with a burst, then difficulties arise. This thing that gives out and then that-"Bugs"as such little faults and difficulties are called show themselves and months of anxious watching, study and labor are requisite before commercial success-or failure-is certainly reached."
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"Science is practical philosophy."
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"I therefore concluded, and decided unhesitatingly, that there are three stars in the heavens moving about Jupiter, as Venus and Mercury about the Sun; which at length was established as clear as daylight by numerous other observations."
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"I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like walking or carrying things."
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"After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it."
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"It gives me a deep comforting sense that Things seen are temporal and things unseen are eternal."
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"Time and space are modes by which we think and not conditions in which we live."
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"Nature does nothing in vain when less will serve; for Nature is pleased with simplicity and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes."
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"Wonder is the seed of knowledge"
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"Activity is the only road to knowledge."
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