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Truth in science is like Everest, an ordering of the facts.

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Therapy has become what I think of as the tenth American muse.

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The human baby, the human being, is a mosaic of animal and angel.

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I call that brilliant sequence of cultural peaks The Ascent of Man.

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Science is a tribute to what we can know, although we are fallible.

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Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a re-creation of her.

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Science has nothing to be ashamed of, even in the ruins of Nagasaki.

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The symbol and the metaphor are as necessary to science as to poetry.

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Every judgment in science stands on the edge of error, and is personal.

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No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.

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Those who personally dominate are heroes for the hour; those who build are immortal.

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Nations in their great ages have not been great in art or science, but in art and science.

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The largest single step in the ascent of man is the change from nomad to village agriculture.

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Human knowledge is personal and responsible, an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

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Science is not a mechanism but a human progress, and not a set of findings but the search for them.

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In the moment of appreciation we live again the moment when the creator saw and held the hidden likeness.

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Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.

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That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.

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Satire is not a social dynamite. But it is a social indicator: it shows that new men are knocking at the door.

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The progress of science is the discovery at each step of a new order which gives unity to what had seemed unlike.

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The world is made of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.

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Physics is not events but observations. Relativity is the understanding of the world not as events but as relations.

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Science is the acceptance of what works and the rejection of what does not. That needs more courage than we might think.

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There is no absolute knowledge. And those who claim it, whether they are scientists or dogmatists, open the door to tragedy.

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The child is not a prisoner of its inheritance; it holds its inheritance as a new creation which its future actions will unfold.

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Science is a very human form of knowledge. We are always at the brink of the known, we always feel forward for what is to be hoped.

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Astronomy is not the apex of science or of invention. But it is a test of the cast of temperament and mind that underlies a culture.

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There never was a great scientist who did not make bold guesses, and there never was a bold man whose guesses were not sometimes wild.

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The world makes sense all right; it makes common sense... But common sense is not what we put into the world. It is what we find there.

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The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men.

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