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• I don’t need to travel back in time to cause trouble. Seeing back through time finds me trouble enough!

  A.A. Bell

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• After all, what else is scientific enquiry of any sort other than a controlled version of banging one’s head against the universe until something gives?

  Tom Holt

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• Time is what keeps everything from happening at once.

  Ray Cummings

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• The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.

  Nikola Tesla

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• Wonder is what sets us apart from other life forms. No other species wonders about the meaning of existence or the complexity of the universe or themselves.

  Herbert W. Boyer

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• Two years ago I would have called this baloney.

  Raul Cano

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• When I talk to audiences about the size and age of the cosmos, people often say, “It makes me feel so insignificant.” I answer, “The bigger and more impersonal the universe is, the more meaningful you are, because this vast, impersonal place needs something to fill it up.” We’ve abandoned the old belief that humanity is at the physical center of the universe but must come back to believing we are at the center of meaning.

  Alan Dressler

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• Science of happiness lies in our understanding. The secrets of happiness lie in our capacity to expand our heart.

  Amit Ray

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• We are much beholden to Machiavel and then it ought to be done. That if something has been invented, then we must use it. We don’t stop to thing of the possible consequences of its use.

  J. B. Priestley

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• The great tragedy of science – the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.

  Thomas Henry Huxley

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• I seem to have been only a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

  Sir Isaac Newton

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• All science is dominated by the idea of approximation.

  Bertrand Russell

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• Science tells us what we can know, but what we can know is little, and if we forget how much we cannot know we become insensitive to many things of very great importance.

  Bertrand Russell

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• The First Clarke Law states, “If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible he is almost certainly right, but if he says that it is impossible he is very probably wrong.”

  Arthur C. Clarke

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• In teaching man, experimental science results in lessening his pride more and more by providing him every day that primary causes, like the objective reality of things, will be hidden from him forever and that he can only know relations.

  Claude Bernard

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• I want to know how G-d created the world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts; the rest are details.

  Albert Einstein

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• The Scientist is as interested in the leg of the flea as the creative throes of a genius… Science tells us how to heal and how to kill; it reduces the death rate in retail, and then kills us wholesale in war.

  Will Durant

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• We are driven by the insatiable curiosity of the scientist, and our work is a delightful game. I am frequently astonished that it so often results in correct predictions of experimental results.

  Murray Gell-Mann

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• Nothing great is ever accomplished by following standards.

  Geoffroy Birtz

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• Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.

  Dan Brown

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