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Physics is littered with the corpses of dead unified field theories.

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We have seen particle physics emerge as the playground of group theory.

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Science is my territory, but science fiction is the landscape of my dreams.

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Ethical progress is the only cure for the damage done by scientific progress.

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Heat is disordered energy. So with two words the nature of heat is explained.

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There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.

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We do not need to have an agreed set of goals before we do something ambitious!

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Lucky individuals in each generation find technology appropriate to their needs.

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God is what mind becomes when it has passed beyond the scale of our comprehension.

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The real world is muddy and messy and full of things that we do not yet understand.

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The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple.

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So long as you have courage and a sense of humor, it is never too late to start life afresh.

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There is no doubt that parts of the world are getting warmer, but the warming is not global.

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As finite creatures who think and feel, we can create islands of meaning in the sea of information.

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The laws of nature are constructed in such a way as to make the universe as interesting as possible.

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Mathematical intuition is more often conservative than revolutionary, more often hampering than liberating.

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We stand, in a manner of speaking, midway between the unpredictability of atoms and the unpredictability of God.

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An awareness of our smallness may help to redeem us from the arrogance which is the besetting sin of the scientists.

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Sharing the food is to me more important than arguing about beliefs. Jesus, according to the gospels, thought so too.

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To give us room to explore the varieties of mind and body into which our genome can evolve, one planet is not enough.

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Progress in science is often built on wrong theories that are later corrected. It is better to be wrong than to be vague.

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It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.

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If the tools are bad, nature's voice is muffled. If the tools are good, nature will give us a clear answer to a clear question.

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We have learned that matter is weird stuff. It is weird enough, so that it does not limit God's freedom to make it do what he pleases.

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A physicist builds theories with mathematical materials, because the mathematics enables him to imagine more than he can clearly think.

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The technologies that raise the fewest ethical problems are those that work on a human scale, brightening the lives of individual people.

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The marketplace judges technologies by their practical effectiveness, by whether they succeed or fail to do the job they are designed to do.

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The public knows that human beings are fallible. Only people blinded by ideology fall into the trap of believing in their own infallibility.

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That was the wonderful thing about Ramanujan. He discovered so much, and yet he left so much more in his garden for other people to discover.

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It is our task, both in science and in society at large, to prove the conventional wisdom wrong and to make our unpredictable dreams come true

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