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Regardless of one's point of view, it's quite easy to see that Darwinism is not in the same league a...

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William A. DembskiUncommon Dissent: Intellectuals Who Find Darwinism Unconvincing

But what is the past? Could it be, the firmness of the past is just illusion? Could the past be a ka...

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Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.

Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.

A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He exp...

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I have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look for its thinnest part, and dri...

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The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and a...

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If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping you...

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Matter tells space how to curve, space tells matter how to move.

Although I am a typical loner in my daily life, my awareness of belonging to the invisible community...

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When I was young I found out that the big toe always ends up making a hole in a sock.So I stopped we...

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Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control....

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It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systemat...

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Albert EinsteinAlbert Einstein: The Human Side

If you've never done anything wrong it's probably because you have never tried anything new.

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Albert EinsteinRelativity: The Special and the General Theory

Until Einstein (roughly), THE universe of Newton was, for us, THE universe. With Einstein, it became...

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Alfred KorzybskiScience and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics

Energy is liberated matter, matter is energy waiting to happen.

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Bill BrysonA Short History of Nearly Everything

When the poet Paul Valery once asked Albert Einstein if he kept a notebook to record his ideas, Eins...

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Bill BrysonA Short History of Nearly Everything

Einstein, twenty-six years old, only three years away from crude privation, still a patent examiner,...

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One day at Fenner's (the university cricket ground at Cambridge), just before the last war, G. H. Ha...

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There is a reward structure in science that is very interesting: Our highest honors go to those who ...

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If you had walked through the pleasant Tuscan countryside in the 1890's, you might have come upon a ...

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When Einstein died, his greatest rival, Bohr, found for him words of moving admiration. When a few y...

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Carlo RovelliSeven Brief Lessons on Physics

I think I have a very good idea why it is that anti-Semitism is so tenacious and so protean and so e...

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I think I have a very good idea why it is that anti-Semitism is so tenacious and so protean and so e...

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I think a strong claim can be made that the process of scientific discovery may be regarded as a for...

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[Regarding mathematics,] there are now few studies more generally recognized, for good reasons or ba...

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It appears that the solution of the problem of time and space is reserved to philosophers who, like ...

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The Theory of Relativity confers an absolute meaning on a magnitude which in classical theory has on...

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Max PlanckScientific Autobiography and Other Papers

It would take a civilization far more advanced than ours, unbelievably advanced, to begin to manipul...

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The gravitational waves of the first detection were generated by a collision of black holes in a gal...

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Einstein, stop telling God what to do!

Einstein...even failed physics once, but he'd never thought of giving up school to make a living.