"Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down."
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"I am sitting here 93 million miles from the sun on a rounded rock which is spinning at the rate of 1000 miles an hour... and my head pointing down into space with nothing between me and infinity but something called gravity which I can't even understand, and which you can't even buy any place so as to have some stored away for a gravityless day."
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"Scientists have been struck by the fact that things that break down virtually never get lost, while things that get lost hardly ever break down."
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"The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship."
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"There ought not to be anything in the whole universe that man can't poke his nose into-that's the way we're built and I assume that there's some reason for that."
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"The nature of matter, or body considered in general, consists not in its being something which is hard or heavy or coloured, or which affects the senses in any way, but simply in its being something which is extended in length, breadth and depth."
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"One curious result of this inertia, which deserves to rank among the fundamental 'laws' of nature, is that when a discovery has finally won tardy recognition it is usually found to have been anticipated, often with cogent reasons and in great detail."
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"A vacuum can only exist, I imagine, by the things which enclose it."
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"[Science is] piecemeal revelation."
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"The more we learn of science, the more we see that its wonderful mysteries are all explained by a few simple laws so connected together and so dependent upon each other, that we see the same mind animating them all."
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"There are innumerable definitions of God because his manifestations are innumerable."
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"Darwin has interested us in the history of nature's technology."
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"Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science."
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"In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics."
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"It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes."
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"The Governor was strong upon The Regulation Act: The Doctor said that Death was but A scientific fact: And twice a day the Chaplain called, And left a little tract."
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"Ere land and sea and the all-covering sky Were made, in the whole world the countenance Of nature was the same, all one, well named Chaos, a raw and undivided mass, Naught but a lifeless bulk, with warring seeds Of ill-joined elements compressed together."
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"The real name for 'science' is magic."
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"But basically what I like are the possibilities, and the fantasy element of the show. Not science fantasy so much, but fantasy, the humanistic elements and how people relate when they’re in a dire situation or comedic situation."
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"Every account of a higher power that I've seen described, of all religions that I've seen, include many statements with regard to the benevolence of that power. When I look at the universe and all the ways the universe wants to kill us, I find it hard to reconcile that with statements of beneficence."
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