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Although I was first drawn to math and science by the certainty they promised, today I find the unanswered questions and the unexpected connections at least as attractive.
Lisa Randall
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Education is habit-forming rather than information; illumination rather than indoctrination, inspiration rather than compulsion.
Edwin Grant Conklin
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Magic is essentially metaphorical. So are dreams. So is most artistic activity, Finally, theoretical science is essentially disciplined exploitation of metaphor.
Anatol Rapoport
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Our children are our signature to the roster of history; our land is merely the place our money was made. There is as yet no social stigma in the possession of a gullied farm, a wrecked forest, or a polluted stream, provided the dividends suffice to send the youngsters to college. Whatever ails the land, the government will fix it.
Aldo Leopold
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Aging and death do seem to be what Nature has planned for us. But what if we have other plans?
Bernard L. Strehler
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It was a wonderful mess at that time. Wonderful! Just great! It was so confusing — physics at its best, when everything is confused and you know something important lies just around the corner.
Abraham Pais
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The Universe is one indivisible, dynamic whole in which energy and matter are so deeply entangled it is impossible to consider them as independent elements.
Bruce Lipton
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The foreign policy aim of ants can be summed up as follows: restless aggression, territorial conquest, and genocidal annihilation of neighboring colonies whenever possible. If ants had nuclear weapons, they would probably end the world in a week.
E. O. Wilson
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To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth.
Evelyn Fox Keller
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There is not a "pure" science. By this I mean that physics impinges on astronomy, on the one hand, and chemistry and biology on the other. And not only does each support neighbors, but derives sustenance from them. The same can be said of chemistry. Biology is, perhaps, the example par excellence today of an "impure" Science.
Melvin Calvin
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Scientific collaborations are akin to marriages, or temporary marriages. Their breakup is not unlike a divorce and rarely avoids acrimony.
Peter Freund
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When you know you're right, you don't care what others think. You know sooner or later it will come out in the wash.
Barbara McClintock
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If one can tell ahead of time what one's research is going to be, the research problem cannot be very deep and may be said to be almost nonexistent.
Alfred Schild
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There can be no permanent progress in the battle against hunger until the agencies that fight for increased food production and those that fight for population control unite in a common effort.
Norman Borlaug
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Chemists think in the highly visual nanoscopic world of atoms and molecules, but they work in the tangible world of macroscopic laboratory apparatus. These two approaches to the chemical sciences cannot be divorced.
David W. Oxtoby
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Humility is indeed a distinctive quality of every scientific mind; not humility before man and man-made images, but before the marvellous universe in which the Earth is only a particle.
Henry Augustus Rowland
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If I want a word, I make it. I don't like combustion. It's too quiet. I have some stuff in a state of combustication.
Julius Sumner Miller
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I have just joined the Board of the Population Institute because I am convinced that early stabilization of the world's population is important for the attainment of this objective.
Walter Kohn
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Any universe that could have preceded consciousness only existed in a probability state.
Robert Lanza
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The greatest problem encountered by students in geology is the necessity for a complete reorganization of their concepts of space and time.
Robert Garrels
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The numerical description of a vector requires three numbers, but nothing prevents us from using a single number for its symbolical designation. An algebra or analytical method in which a single letter or other expression is used to specify a vector may be called a vector algebra or vector analysis.
Josiah Willard Gibbs
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Epidemiology is like a bikini: what is revealed is interesting; what is concealed is crucial.
Peter Duesberg
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If the wolf is to survive, the wolf haters must be outnumbered. They must be outshouted, out financed, and out voted. Their narrow and biased attitude must be outweighed by an attitude based on an understanding of natural processes.
L. David Mech
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Nature possesses an order that one may aspire to comprehend.
Chen-Ning Yang
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In photosynthesis we are like travelers in an unknown country around whom the early morning fog slowly begins to rise, vaguely revealing the outlines of the landscape. It will be thrilling to see it in bright daylight!
Eugene Rabinowitch
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