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When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves. Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.

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Authority in science exists to be questioned, since heresy is the spring from which new ideas flow.

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Even in the world of molecules the civilising influence of modest restraints is a cause for rejoicing.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Werner Heisenberg

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John Polanyi

Born: January 23, 1929 (age 96)
Bio: John Charles Polanyi is a Hungarian-Canadian chemist who won the 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, for his research in chemical kinetics.

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