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A whirlwind runs amok, and is filled with confusions...

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The outrageous is the reasonable, if introduced politely.

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Do you want power over something? Be more nearly real than it.

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A river... is water expressing the gravitational relation of different levels.

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One can't be of an enquiring and experimental nature, and still be very sensible.

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The fate of all explanation is to close one door only to have another fly wide open.

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When we come upon assurances that a mystery has been solved, we go on investigating.

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The history of science is a record of the transformations of contempts amd amusements.

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The interpretations will be mine, but the data will be for anybody to form his own opinions on.

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The great difficulty that authoritativeness has to contend with is some other authoritativeness.

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Science of to-day-the superstition of to-morrow. Science of to-morrow-the superstition of to-day.

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One can't learn much and also be comfortable One can't learn much and let anybody else be comfortable

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There is not a physicist in the world who can perceive when a parlor magician palms off playing-cards.

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Existence is Appetite: the gnaw of being; the one attempt of all things to assimilate to some higher attempt.

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The tornado came wriggling, jumping, whirling like a great green snake, darting out a score of glistening fangs.

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It is not possible to define. Nothing has ever been finally found out. Because there is nothing final to find out.

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I conceive of nothing, in religion, science, or philosophy, that is more than the proper thing to wear, for a while.

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If nobody looks up, or checks up, what the astronomers tell us, they are free to tell us anything that they want to tell us.

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A procession of the damned.
By the damned, I mean the excluded.
We shall have a procession of data that Science has excluded.

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In 1846, everyone who knew a sine from a cosine was out sining and cosining for a planet beyond Uranus. Two of them guessed right.

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Every science is a mutilated octopus. If its tentacles were not clipped to stumps, it would feel its way into disturbing contacts.

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If the Law of Gravitation could be stated as a real utterance, it might be a real resistance to us. But we are told only that gravitation is gravitation.

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I have taken the stand that nobody can be always wrong, but it does seem to me that I have approximated so highly that I am nothing short of a negative genius.

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Venus de Milo. To a child she is ugly. When a mind adjusts to thinking of her as a completeness, even though, by physiologic standards, incomplete, she is beautiful.

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The theologians have recognized that the ideal is the imitation of God. If we be a part of such an organic thing, this thing is God to us, as I am God to the cells that compose me.

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