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In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed.

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A science which hesitates to forget its founders is lost.

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It is the business of the future to be dangerous and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.

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Let me here remind you that the essence of dramatic tragedy is not unhappiness. It resides in the solemnity of the remorseless working of things. This...more

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The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment... We are told that by its aid the stars are weighed and the billions of molecules in a ...more

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[Beware of] the fallacy of misplaced concreteness [mistaking an abstraction for concrete reality, for actuality] In the inescapable flux, there is som...more

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The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanations of complex facts. We are apt to fall into the error of thinking that the facts are simple beca...more