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I believe that only scientists can understand the universe. It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so muc...more

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If a conclusion is not poetically balanced, it cannot be scientifically true.

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There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding it...more

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If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

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...We now know the basic rules governing the universe, together with the gravitational interrelationships of its gross components, as shown in the the...more

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There was something ghost-like and insubstantial about gases to these early chemists. They called liquids that turned into gases easily, "spirits." Me...more

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To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

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The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

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Any system which allows men to choose their own future will end by choosing safety and mediocrity, and in such a Reality the stars are out of reach.

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Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know—and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselve...more

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Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.

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John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who ...more

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Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy oursel...more

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One might suppose that reality must be held to at all costs. However, though that may be the moral thing to do, it is not necessarily the most useful ...more

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Gadgetry will continue to relieve mankind of tedious jobs. Kitchen units will be devised that will prepare ‘automeals,’ heating water and converting i...more