"Scientist alone is true poet he gives us the moon he promises the stars he'll make us a new universe if it comes to that."
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"I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong."
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"All sciences are connected; they lend each other material aid as parts of one great whole, each doing its own work, not for itself alone, but for the other parts; as the eye guides the body and the foot sustains it and leads it from place to place."
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"We ourselves are the entities to be analyzed."
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"I heave the basketball; I know it sails in a parabola, exhibiting perfect symmetry, which is interrupted by the basket. It's funny, but it is always interrupted by the basket."
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"Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again."
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"You all have learned reliance On the sacred teachings of Science, So I hope, through life, you will never decline In spite of philistine Defiance To do what all good scientists do. Experiment. Make it your motto day and night. Experiment. And it will lead you to the light."
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"Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you."
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"He that plants trees loves others besides himself."
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"Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks?"
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"We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry."
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"In science it often happens that scientists say, "You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken...""
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"Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws."
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"There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers."
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"Who could believe in the prophecies ... that the world would end this summer, while one milkweed with faith matured its seeds."
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"There will certainly be no lack of human pioneers when we have mastered the art of flight....Let us create vessels and sails justed to the heavenly ether, and there will be plenty of people unafraid of the empty wastes. In the meantime we shall prepare, for the brave sky-travelers, maps of the celestial bodies."
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"We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin."
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"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines."
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"Maybe I'm being a bit harsh on philosophers, but they have not been very kind to me... I have been variously called nominalist, an instrumentalist, a positivist, a realist, and several other ists. The technique seems refutation by denigration: If you can attach a label to my approach, you don't have to say what is wrong with it... I am sure that Einstein, Heisenberg and Dirac didn't worry about whether they were realists or instrumentalists."
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"...the life of the planet began the long, slow process of modulating and regulating the physical conditions of the planet. The oxygen in today's atmosphere is almost entirely the result of photosynthetic living, which had its start with the appearance of blue-green algae among the microorganisms."
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