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An exploration of the challenges Korea faces in transforming its economy from a government-directed, low-cost producer to an innovative world economic power based on its own scientific and technological development.
Lewis M. Branscomb
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In fact, there really is not a new law of nature. It was all in the theory to begin with but nobody worked it out.
Willis Lamb
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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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This heat [developed after fission stops in a reactor] is like the still thrashing tail of a dead dragon.
Frank N. von Hippel
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It appears to be a quite general principle that, whenever there is a randomized way of doing something, then there is a nonrandomized way that delivers better performance but requires more thought.
Edwin Thompson Jaynes
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How pitiable is it to reflect, that although you were so fully convinced of the benevolence of the Father of Mankind, and of his equal and impartial distribution of these rights and privileges, which he hath conferred upon them, that you should at the same time counteract his mercies, in detaining by fraud and violence so numerous a part of my brethren, under groaning captivity and cruel oppression, that you should at the same time be found guilty of that most criminal act, which you professedly detested in others, with respect to yourselves
Benjamin Banneker
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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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At any one time there is a natural tendency among physicists to believe that we already know the essential ingredients of a comprehensive theory. But each time a new frontier of observation is broached we inevitably discover new phenomena which force us to modify substantially our previous conceptions. I believe this process to be unending, that the delights and challenges of unexpected discovery will continue always.
Val Logsdon Fitch
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It is dangerous to believe hastily that anything is either possible or impossible, for there are few scientific assertions which have been proved to universal satisfaction. Our firmest scientific beliefs of today may be shattered tomorrow.
Robert H. Goddard
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For the realm of the stars was slow to change. The sun evolves in billions of years, double stars rotate round each other in many decades, and even famous comets return only after many years. Astronomy deals still in the eternities, but nowadays it cannot neglect the split-second...
Philip Morrison
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Slowly the molecules enmeshed in ordered asymmetry. A billion years passed, aeons of trial and error. The life message took form, a spiral, a helix, repeating itself endlessly, Swathed in protein, nurtured by enzymes, sheltered in membranes, laved by salt water, armored with lime.
Thomas H. Jukes
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Our beliefs about ourselves in relation to the world around us are the roots of our values, and our values determine not only our immediate actions, but also, over the course of time, the form of our society. Our beliefs are increasingly determined by science. Hence it is at least conceivable that what science has been telling us for three hundred years about man and his place in nature could be playing by now an important role in our lives.
Henry Stapp
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The whole history of physics proves that a new discovery is quite likely lurking in the next decimal place.
Floyd K. Richtmyer
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In a randomly infinite Universe, any event occurring here and now with finite probability must be occurring simultaneously at an infinite number of other sites in the Universe. It is hard to evaluate this idea any further, but one thing is certain: if it is true then it is certainly not original!
Frank J. Tipler
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Going to the moon is not a matter of physics but of economics.
John R. Platt
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Mathematics is much more than a language for dealing with the physical world. It is a source of models and abstractions which will enable us to obtain amazing new insights into the way in which nature operates. Indeed, the beauty and elegance of the physical laws themselves are only apparent when expressed in the appropriate mathematical framework.
Melvin Schwartz
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Ever since quantum phenomena became definitely recognized many attempts were made to picture their mechanism.
Boris Podolsky
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Consciousness is the creative element in the universe. Without it, nothing would appear.
Fred Alan Wolf
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Everything in the universe ages, including the universe.
Leonard Hayflick
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Any universe that could have preceded consciousness only existed in a probability state.
Robert Lanza
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Virtually all native cultures that have survived without fouling their nests have acknowledged that nature knows best, and have had the humility to ask the bears and wolves and ravens and redwoods for guidance.
Janine Benyus
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It is through the medium of our senses alone that we derive our knowledge of the phenomena of external nature.
George Frederick Barker
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Nature possesses an order that one may aspire to comprehend.
Chen-Ning Yang
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Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Alvin M. Weinberg
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Only a small part of scientific progress has resulted from planned search for specific objectives. A much more important part has been made possible by the freedom of the individual to follow his own curiosity.
Irving Langmuir
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