"As a blind man has no idea of colors, so we have no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things."
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"Of all the frictional resistances, the one that most retards human movement is ignorance, what Buddha called 'the greatest evil in the world.' The friction which results from ignorance ... can be reduced only by the spread of knowledge and the unification of the heterogeneous elements of humanity. No effort could be better spent."
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"Physics is to mathematics what sex is to masturbation."
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"It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong."
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"Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me."
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"To me, cruelty is the worst of human sins. Once we accept that a living creature has feelings and suffers pain, then by knowingly and deliberately inflicting suffering on that creature, we are guilty, whether it be human or animal."
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"Where there is matter, there is geometry."
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"The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it."
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"The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown."
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"Science is but a perversion of itself unless it has as its ultimate goal the betterment of humanity."
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"Let Nature be your teacher"
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"All experience is a drug experience. Whether it's mediated by our own [endogenous] drugs, or whether it's mediated by substances that we ingest that are found in plants, cognition, consciousness, the working of the brain, it's all a chemically mediated process. Life itself is a drug experience."
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"When I hear of Schrödinger's cat, I reach for my pistol."
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"A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there."
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"Now with the allocation and the understanding of the lack of understanding, we enter into a new era of science in which we feel nothing more than so much so as to say that those within themselves, comporary or non-comporary, will figuratively figure into the folding of our non-understanding and our partial understanding to the networks of which we all draw our source and conclusions from."
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"If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part."
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"All experience is an arch, to build upon."
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"The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers."
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"Why are things as they are and not otherwise?"
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"Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole."
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