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• Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Technology, Telescopes, Cobol

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• The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.

  Henri Poincare

  Beautiful, Math, Doe

  Henri Poincare (2012). “The Value of Science: Essential Writings of Henri Poincare”, p.318, Modern Library

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• The universe is wider than our views of it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Views, Space, Perception

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.185, Simon and Schuster

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• It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Learning, Mind, Being Different

  1925 Science and the Modern World.

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• What I have done is to show that it is possible for the way the universe began to be determined by the laws of science. In that case, it would not be necessary to appeal to God to decide how the universe began. This doesn't prove that there is no God, only that God is not necessary.

  Stephen Hawking

  Religious, Law, If There Is A God

  "Physicist Stephen Hawking Says There Is No Heaven". www.foxnews.com. May 16, 2011.

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• New and stirring things are belittled because if they are not belittled the humiliating question arises 'Why then are you not taking part in them?

  H. G. Wells

  Internet, Free Speech, Arise

  H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.7624, Delphi Classics

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• For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert.

  Jasper Fforde

  Opposites, Experts, Skepticism

  Jasper Fforde (2011). “One of our Thursdays is Missing: Thursday Next”, p.122, Hachette UK

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• May every young scientist remember and not fail to keep his eyes open for the possibility that an irritating failure of his apparatus to give consistent results may once or twice in a lifetime conceal an important discovery.

  Patrick Blackett, Baron Blackett

  Failure, Eye, Discovery

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• As long as we do science, some things will always remain unexplained.

  Fritjof Capra

  Long, Unexplained

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• If I would be a young man again and had to decide how to make my living, I would not try to become a scientist or scholar or teacher. I would rather choose to be a plumber or a peddler in hope to find that modest degree of independence still available under present circumstances.

  Albert Einstein

  Teacher, Men, Independence

  Quoted in Reporter, 18 Nov. 1954

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• The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.

  Richard Dawkins

  Life, Reality, Essence

  The Blind Watchmaker Chapter 11

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• Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Albert Einstein, Leopold Infeld (1966). “Evolution of Physics”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Albert Einstein, Harry Woolf (1980). “Some strangeness in the proportion: a centennial symposium to celebrate the achievements of Albert Einstein”, Addison Wesley Publishing Company

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• I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Time, Math, Long

  "The Mind and the Eye: A Study of the Biologist's Standpoint". Book by A. Arber, 1954.

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• The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.

  William Osler

  Birthday, Truth, Philosophy

  Sir William Osler, Mark E. Silverman, T. J. Murray, Charles S. Bryan, American College of Physicians--American Society of Internal Medicine (2003). “The Quotable Osler”, p.18, ACP Press

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• We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Progress, Trying, Way

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.130, Princeton University Press

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• I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Truth, Lying, Men

  "What is Art?". Book by Leo Tolstoy, Ch. 14, 1897.

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• One is always a long way from solving a problem until one actually has the answer.

  Stephen Hawking

  Engineering, Long, Answers

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• Those afraid of the universe as it really is, those who pretend to nonexistent knowledge and envision a Cosmos centered on human beings will prefer the fleeting comforts of superstition. They avoid rather than confront the world. But those with the courage to explore the weave and structure of the Cosmos, even where it differs profoundly from their wishes and prejudices, will penetrate its deepest mysteries.

  Carl Sagan

  Knowledge, Wish, Cosmos

  "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage". Book by Carl Sagan, p. 332, 1980.

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• You can get into a habit of thought in which you enjoy making fun of all those other people who don't see things as clearly as you do. We have to guard carefully against it.

  Carl Sagan

  Fun, People, Habit

  "The Burden of Skepticism". Book by Carl Sagan, 1987.

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• [Those] who have an excessive faith in their theories or in their ideas are not only poorly disposed to make discoveries, but they also make very poor observations.

  Claude Bernard

  Discovery, Ideas, Poor

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• I believe there is no philosophical high-road in science, with epistemological signposts. No, we are in a jungle and find our way by trial and error, building our road behind us as we proceed.

  Max Born

  Philosophy, Believe, Philosophical

  "Experiment and Theory in Physics" by Max Born, (p. 44), 1943.

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• No effect that requires more than 10 percent accuracy in measurement is worth investigating.

  Walther Nernst

  Engineering, Measurement, Accuracy

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• For science is ... like virtue, its own exceeding great reward.

  Charles Kingsley

  Rewards, Virtue, Great Reward

  "Health and Education, Science", as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, pp. 691-92, 1922.

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• As time goes on, it becomes increasingly evident that the rules which the mathematician finds interesting are the same as those which Nature has chosen.

  Paul Dirac

  Nature, Interesting, Goes On

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