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The truth will not penetrate a preoccupied mind.

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Truth is so seldom the sudden light that shows new order and beauty; more often, truth is the uncharted rock that sinks [a] ship in the dark.

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Geometrical truths are in a way asymptotes to physical truths, that is to say, the latter approach the former indefinitely near without ever reaching them exactly.

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In a world where it is so easy to neglect, deny, corrupt and suppress the truth, the scientist may find his discipline severe. For him, truth is so seldom the sudden light that shows new order and beauty; more often, truth is the uncharted rock that sinks his ship in the dark.

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John Cornforth

John Cornforth

Born: September 7, 1917
Died: December 8, 2013 (aged 96)
Bio: Sir John Warcup "Kappa" Cornforth, Jr., AC, CBE, FRS, FAA, was an Australian British chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1975 for his work on the stereochemistry of enzyme-catalysed reactions, becoming the only Nobel laureate born in New South Wales.

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