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Each human being is the actualization of an extremely improbable chance—in fact, a series of improbable chances, extending all the way back to the unique event that more than 3 billion years ago started life on the earth on its chancy course.

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Significant advances in science often have a peculiar quality: they contradict obvious, commonsense opinions.

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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.
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Salvador Luria

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Born: August 13, 1912
Died: February 6, 1991 (aged 78)
Bio: Salvador Edward Luria was an Italian microbiologist, later a naturalized U.S. citizen.

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