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"Science has discovered much. The engineering is wonderful, epicycles and all. And yet, as we look at this vast, elaborate structure built on layer and layer of complex constituents, can we help but be reminded of the Land of Oz. Have we found the Emerald City? Is this what we were searching for? Is this the ultimate fabric of reality? Is this all there is?"
"I believe natural beauty has a necessary place in the spiritual development of any individual or any society. I believe that whenever we substitute something man-made and artificial for a natural feature of the earth, we have retarded some part of man's spiritual growth."
"Nothing is really small; whoever is open to the deep penetration of nature knows this."
"A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words."
"When people talk of atoms obeying fixed laws, they are either ascribing some kind of intelligence and free will to atoms or they are talking nonsense. There is no obedience unless there is at any rate a potentiality of disobeying."
"Tis a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity, of chemistry, of botany, and so forth."
"Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas."
"Logic is a wonderful thing but doesn't always beat actual thought."
"At least I know I'm bewildered about the really fundamental and important facts of the universe."
"Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one. But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten."
"The modern naturalist must realize that in some of its branches his profession, while more than ever a science, has also become an art."
"I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am."
"In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact."
"A man has no reason to be ashamed of having an ape for his grandfather. If there were an ancestor whom I should feel shame in recalling it would rather be a man who plunges into scientific questions with which he has no real acquaintance, only to obscure them by an aimless rhetoric."
"Proposition VIII. When two Undulations, from different Origins, coincide either perfectly or very nearly in Direction, their joint effect is a Combination of the Motions belonging to each."
"From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle; we just decided to go."
"The web is more a social creation than a technical one. I designed it for a social effect - to help people work together - and not as a technical toy. The ultimate goal of the Web is to support and improve our weblike existence in the world. We clump into families, associations, and companies. We develop trust across the miles and distrust around the corner."
"Some cures are worse than the dangers they combat."
"If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date."
"If we want to solve a problem that we have never solved before, we must leave the door to the unknown ajar."
