"Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history."
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"As, pricked out with less and greater lights, between the poles of the universe, the Milky Way so gleameth white as to set very sages questioning."
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"What science can there be more noble, more excellent, more useful for men, more admirably high and demonstrative, than this of mathematics?"
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"The voyage of the Beagle has been by far the most important event in my life and has determined my whole career; yet it depended on so small a circumstance as my uncle offering to drive me 30 miles to Shrewsbury, which few uncles would have done, and on such a trifle as the shape of my nose."
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"Anyone who thinks science is trying to make human life easier or more pleasant is utterly mistaken."
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"I was sitting in a chair in the patent office at Bern when all of a sudden a thought occurred to me: "If a person falls freely he will not feel his own weight." I was startled. This simple thought made a deep impression on me. It impelled me toward a theory of gravitation."
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"But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun."
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"How does gravity work? And if it were to cease suddenly, would certain restaurants still require a jacket?"
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"Standard mathematics has recently been rendered obsolete by the discovery that for years we have been writing the numeral five backward. This has led to reevaluation of counting as a method of getting from one to ten. Students are taught advanced concepts of Boolean algebra, and formerly unsolvable equations are dealt with by threats of reprisals."
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"There is one quality that characterizes all of us who deal with the sciences of the earth and its life - we are never bored."
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"It is much better to learn the elements of geology, of botany, or ornithology and astronomy by word of mouth from a companion than dully from a book."
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"Science does not know its debt to imagination."
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"Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science."
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"Nature tells every secret once."
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"If there is anything in the world which I do firmly believe in, it is the universal validity of the law of causation."
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"If we seek for the simplest arrangement, which would enable it [the eye] to receive and discriminate the impressions of the different parts of the spectrum, we may suppose three distinct sensations only to be excited by the rays of the three principal pure colours, falling on any given point of the retina, the red, the green, and the violet; while the rays occupying the intermediate spaces are capable of producing mixed sensations, the yellow those which belong to the red and green, and the blue those which belong to the green and violet."
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"Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one."
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"We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress."
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"When we attempt to imagine death, we perceive ourselves as spectators."
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"Science is voiceless; it is the scientists who talk."
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