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It can even be thought that radium could become very dangerous in criminal hands, and here the question can be raised whether mankind benefits from knowing the secrets of Nature, whether it is ready to profit from it or whether this knowledge will not be harmful for it.
Pierre Curie
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A great discovery does not leap completely achieved from the brain of the scientist, as Minerva sprang, all panoplied, from the head of Jupiter; it is the fruit of accumulated preliminary work.
Marie Curie
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Organized religion: The world's largest pyramid scheme.
Bernard Katz
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I fully agree with you concerning the pseudo-science of astrology. The interesting point is that this kind of superstition is so tenacious that it could persist through so many centuries.
Albert Einstein
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Science is a field which grows continuously with ever expanding frontiers. Further, it is truly international in scope. Any particular advance has been preceded by the contributions of those from many lands who have set firm foundations for further developments. The Nobel awards should be regarded as giving recognition to this general scientific progress as well as to the individuals involved.
Further, science is a collaborative effort. The combined results of several people working together is often much more effective than could be that of an individual scientist working alone.
John Bardeen
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Certainly we do not need quantum mechanics for macroscopic objects, which are well described by classical physics – this is the reason why quantum mechanics seems so foreign to our everyday existence.
Alain Aspect
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The scientific paradox is only an exception to some familiar but too inclusive generalization. It, therefore, has both the appeal of the riddle and the charm of surprise — the surprise, the instant the truth is seen, of a sudden and unexpected discovery....
William Jackson Humphreys
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The theory of quanta is similar to other victories in science; for some months you smile at it, and then for years you weep.
Hans Kramers
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It has been remarked in a jocular vein that if H stands for the Hamiltonian, K must stand for the Kamiltonian!
Herbert Goldstein
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The facts which our theories enable us to discover, subsist and are linked together long after these theories have disappeared. Out of the materials of former edifices overthrown, new dwellings are constantly being reconstructed.
Lucien Poincaré
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People fear their hidden selves, afraid that they will burst out.
Gregory Benford
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We are not sufficiently astonished by the fact that any science may be possible.
Louis de Broglie
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Not everyone would be willing to say that he believes in the existence of the neutrino, but it is safe to say there is hardly one of us who is not served by the neutrino hypothesis as an aid in thinking about beta-decay process.
H. Richard Crane
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The more I think the more bewildered I become.
Charles Galton Darwin
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Meaning does not reside in the mathematical symbols. It resides in the cloud of thought enveloping these symbols. It is conveyed in words; these assign meaning to the symbols.
Marvin Chester
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This heat [developed after fission stops in a reactor] is like the still thrashing tail of a dead dragon.
Frank N. von Hippel
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The phenomenon of chaos could have been discovered long, long ago. It wasn't, in part because this huge body of work on the dynamics of regular motion didn't lead in that direction. But if you just look, there it is.
Norman Packard
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We know that nature is described by the best of all possible mathematics because God created it.
Alexander Markovich Polyakov
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The existing theories of the interaction of elementary particles and fields are all unsatisfactory in one way or another. The imperfections may well arise from the use of wrong dynamical systems to represent atomic phenomena, i.e., wrong Hamiltonians and wrong interaction energies. It thus becomes a matter of great importance to set up new dynamical systems and see if they will better describe the atomic world.
Paul Dirac
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What good does all scientific progress do if it cannot be communicated? Do we really understand the world if we cannot explain it without the requirement of long, demanding studies?
Martin Bojowald
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All our civilization is based on inventions; before invention, men lived on fruits and nuts and pine cones and slept in caves.
Reginald Fessenden
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We are quickly approaching the end of the millennium and the 'magical' year 2000. Many futurologists in the sixties thought science and technology would offer man unprecedented possibilities for solving his problems. The fall of the Iron Curtain and the implosion of the Eastern Block also created, just a, few years ago, grand expectations. The dream did not come true, however. Rather than ending up in a technological paradise and a peace-loving world, we woke up in a torn world with virtually unsolvable environmental problems and agonising social conditions.
Diederik Aerts
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The constant questioning of our values and achievements is a challenge without which neither science nor society can remain healthy.
Aage Niels Bohr
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The atoms become like a moth, seeking out the region of higher laser intensity.
Steven Chu
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To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth.
Evelyn Fox Keller
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