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Mathematics is the natural language of theoretical physics. It is the irreplaceable instrument for the penetration of realms of physical phenomena far beyond the ordinary experience upon which conventional language is based.
Julian Schwinger
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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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Among nonclassical ions the ratio of conceptual difficulty to molecular weight reaches a maximum with the cyclopropylcarbinyl-cyclobutyl system.
Paul Doughty Bartlett
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The nature of the chemical bond is the problem at the heart of all chemistry.
Bryce Crawford
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We know evolution happened because innumerable bits of data from myriad fields of science conjoin to paint a rich portrait of life's pilgrimage.
Michael Shermer
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The combination of growing specialization and the peer-review system have fractured science into isolated domains, each with a built-in tendency toward theoretical orthodoxy and a hostility to other disciplines.
Eric Lerner
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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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Paradise has been lost, not to sin, but to science.
Stuart Kauffman
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The phenomenon of chaos could have been discovered long, long ago. It wasn't, in part because this huge body of work on the dynamics of regular motion didn't lead in that direction. But if you just look, there it is.
Norman Packard
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We know light best in its diluted form: a gentle rain of photons falling from the sun that illuminates and warms. More concentrated, light is a furnace and a terror.
George M. Whitesides
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For me, the creative process, first of all, requires a good nine hours of sleep a night. Second, it must not be pushed by the need to produce practical applications.
William Lipscomb
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The endless frontiers of science now stretching to the stars can provide rich opportunities for the best creative minds.
Edward R. Weidlein
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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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Playing the game is far more satisfying than reading the rules.
Bernard Haisch
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The late Richard Feynman, a superb physicist, said once as we talked about the laser that the way to tell a great idea is that, when people hear it, they say, 'Gee, I could have thought of that.'
Charles Hard Townes
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I see a tremendous amount of intricacy in the world and we have probably only begun to scratch at the surface of its intricacy.
Roy J. Glauber
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The hope of a positive expected gain lies in detecting a wheel with sufficient bias.
Richard Arnold Epstein
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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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In attempting to discover traces of a science in earliest historic times, one must first disabuse his mind of the idea that he will find it in anything like the elaborated modern form in which he knows it. These natural sciences are the result of a long process of evolution, and the primal form will probably prove a very much disguised one.
Francis Preston Venable
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The maxim that the "best is the cheapest" does not apply to food.
Wilbur Olin Atwater
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The place we call our Universe is, for the most part, cold and dark and all but endless. It is the emptiest of empties. It is old, and yet very young. It contains much that is dead, and yet much that is alive, forever reinventing itself, and sometimes inventing something wholly new.
Alan Stern
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Questions about a theory which do not affect its ability to predict experimental results correctly seem to me quibbles about words, rather than anything more substantial, and I am quite content to leave such questions to those who derive some satisfaction from them.
John C. Slater
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Individually, man is more or less of an enigma; in the mass he is a mathematical problem.
Paul R. Heyl
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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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all the light and beauty, all the grandeur and majesty of the universe are unraveled only in the tiny retinas of human beings.
Varadaraja V. Raman
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