"It might be said that all knowledge is linked to the essential forms of cruelty."
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"The mathematics clearly called for a set of underlying elementary objects-at that time we needed three types of them-elementary objects that could be combined three at a time in different ways to make all the heavy particles we knew. ... I needed a name for them and called them quarks, after the taunting cry of the gulls, "Three quarks for Muster mark," from Finnegan's Wake by the Irish writer James Joyce."
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"Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go."
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"We have lost the art of living, and in the most important science of all, the science of daily life, the science of behavior, we are complete ignoramuses. We have psychology instead."
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"Our passion for learning ... is our tool for survival."
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"A central lesson of science is that to understand complex issues (or even simple ones), we must try to free our minds of dogma and to guarantee the freedom to publish, to contradict, and to experiment. Arguments from authority are unacceptable."
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"If you are only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you."
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"Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old."
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"I am the most travelled of all my contemporaries; I have extended my field of enquiry wider than anybody else, I have seen more countries and climes, and have heard more speeches of learned men. No one has surpassed me in the composition of lines, according to demonstration, not even the Egyptian knotters of ropes, or geometers."
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"Gravity is only the bark of wisdom's tree, but it preserves it."
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"Science, by itself, cannot supply us with an ethic. It can show us how to achieve a given end, and it may show us that some ends cannot be achieved."
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"It is the theory which decides what we can observe"
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"From a certain temperature on, the molecules 'condense' without attractive forces; that is, they accumulate at zero velocity. The theory is pretty, but is there some truth in it."
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"The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms."
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"I don't believe in mathematics."
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"There is nothing divine about morality, it is a purely human affair."
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"Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness."
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"Salt water when it turns into vapour becomes sweet, and the vapour does not form salt water when it condenses again. This I know by experiment. The same thing is true in every case of the kind: wine and all fluids that evaporate and condense back into a liquid state become water. They all are water modified by a certain admixture, the nature of which determines their flavour."
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"The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value."
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"Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking."
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