Quotes.txt

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== Anonymous
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Claiming that mathematical formulas are no more than lines on the paper is the
same as claiming that Shakespeare's plays are no more than words.
... Anonymous

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Life is complex – it has both real and imaginary parts.
... Anonymous

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== Carl Sagan
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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the
universe.
... Carl Sagan

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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
... Carl Sagan

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The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
... Carl Sagan

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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
... Carl Sagan

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== Albert Einstein
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The only source of knowledge is experience.
... Albert Einstein

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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created
them.
... Albert Einstein

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Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure
about the former.
... Albert Einstein

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A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
... Albert Einstein

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The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.
... Albert Einstein

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Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy
habits of thinking.
... Albert Einstein

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Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
... Albert Einstein

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A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.
... Albert Einstein

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Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.
... Albert Einstein

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Information is not knowledge.
... Albert Einstein

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Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
... Albert Einstein

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No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.
... Albert Einstein

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No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can
prove me wrong.
... Albert Einstein

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Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.
... Albert Einstein

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

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Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
... Albert Einstein

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Never lose a holy curiosity.
... Albert Einstein

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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

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Something deeply hidden had to be behind things.
... Albert Einstein

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God does not play dice.
... Albert Einstein

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== G. H. Hardy 
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Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die
and mathematical ideas do not.
... G. H. Hardy

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== Richard P. Feynman 
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It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you
are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong.
... Richard P. Feynman

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I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics.
... Richard P. Feynman

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I think nature's imagination Is so much greater than man's, she's never going to
let us relax.
... Richard P. Feynman

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I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it's much more
interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong.
... Richard P. Feynman

Physics is like sex. Sure it may have some practical results, but that's not why
we do it.
... Richard P. Feynman

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== Jacob Bronowksi
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It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence
to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question
it.
... Jacob Bronowksi

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Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has
succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over
nature.
... Jacob Bronowksi


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== Werner Heisenberg
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Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can
think.
... Werner Heisenberg

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The reality we can put into words is never reality itself.
... Werner Heisenberg

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What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of
questioning.
... Werner Heisenberg

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The problems of language here are really serious. We wish to speak in some way
about the structure of the atoms. But we cannot speak about atoms in ordinary
language.
... Werner Heisenberg

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I think that modern physics has definitely decided in favor of Plato. In fact
the smallest units of matter are not physical objects in the ordinary sense;
they are forms, ideas which can be expressed unambiguously only in mathematical
language.
... Werner Heisenberg

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Whether we like it or not, modern ways are going to alter and in part destroy
traditional customs and values.
... Werner Heisenberg

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The atoms or elementary particles themselves are not real; they form a world of
potentialities or possibilities rather than one of things or facts.
... Werner Heisenberg


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== Thomas Huxley
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The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet
in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every
generation is to reclaim a little more land, to add something to the extent and
the solidity of our possessions.
... Thomas Huxley


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== Leonardo da Vinci
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There is no certainty in sciences where one of the mathematical sciences cannot
be applied, or which are not in relation with these mathematics.
... Leonardo da Vinci


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== Erwin Schrodinger
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What we observe as material bodies and forces are nothing but shapes and
variations in the structure of space.
... Erwin Schrodinger


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== Stefan Zweig
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Every wave, regardless of how high and forceful it crests, must eventually
collapse within itself.
... Stefan Zweig


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== Murray Gell-Mann
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If we look at the way the universe behaves, quantum mechanics gives us
fundamental, unavoidable indeterminacy, so that alternative histories of the
universe can be assigned probability.
... Murray Gell-Mann

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If someone says that he can think or talk about quantum physics without becoming
dizzy, that shows only that he has not understood anything whatever about it.
... Murray Gell-Mann

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Sometimes the probabilities are very close to certainties, but they're never
really certainties.
... Murray Gell-Mann

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What is especially striking and remarkable is that in fundamental physics a
beautiful or elegant theory is more likely to be right than a theory that is
inelegant.
... Murray Gell-Mann

While many questions about quantum mechanics are still not fully resolved, there
is no point in introducing needless mystification where in fact no problem
exists. Yet a great deal of recent writing about quantum mechanics has done just
that.
... Murray Gell-Mann


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== Fred Alan Wolf
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What I thought was unreal, now for me seems in some ways to be more real than
what I think to be real which seems now more to be unreal.
... Fred Alan Wolf

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== Julian Schwinger
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Is the purpose of theoretical physics to be no more than a cataloging of all the
things that can happen when particles interact with each other and separate? Or
is it to be an understanding at a deeper level in which there are things that
are not directly observable (as the underlying quantized fields are) but in
terms of which we shall have a more fundamental understanding?
... Julian Schwinger


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== Ernest Rutherford
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All science is either physics or stamp collecting.
... Ernest Rutherford


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== Paul A. M. Dirac
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In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by
everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact
opposite.
... Paul A. M. Dirac

God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world.
... Paul A. M. Dirac


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== Bill Bryson
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Physics is really nothing more than a search for ultimate simplicity, but so far
all we have is a kind of elegant messiness.
... Bill Bryson


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== Niels Bohr
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How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making
progress.
... Niels Bohr

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An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very
narrow field.
... Niels Bohr

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We must be clear that when it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in
poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with
creating images and establishing mental connections.
... Niels Bohr


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== Timothy Leary
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And a new philosophy emerged called quantum physics, which suggest that the
individual’s function is to inform and be informed. You really exist only when
you’re in a field sharing and exchanging information. You create the realities
you inhabit.
... Timothy Leary


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== Bill Gaede
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Define the word exist, and you'll know whether God exists.
... Bill Gaede


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== Felix Alba-Juez
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It is curious that the human mind could blindly accept an infinite speed but had
reservations to accept a finite one, simply because it was too large!
... Felix Alba-Juez


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== Frank Wilczek
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In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself - nature
does it for you.
... Frank Wilczek


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== Stephen Hawking
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I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about
human nature that the only form of life we have crated so far is purely
destructive. We've created life in our own image.
... Stephen Hawking

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Quiet people have the loudest minds.
... Stephen Hawking

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Not only does God play dice but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be
seen.
... Stephen Hawking

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To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human
spirit.
... Stephen Hawking

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You cannot understand the glories of the universe without believing there is
some Supreme Power behind it.
... Stephen Hawking

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Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.
... Stephen Hawking

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Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.
... Stephen Hawking

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We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average
star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.
... Stephen Hawking


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== Isaac Newton
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Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the
planets in motion.
... Isaac Newton


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== Nikola Tesla
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If you wish to understand the Universe, think of energy, frequency and
vibration.
... Nikola Tesla

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The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more
progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.
... Nikola Tesla


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== Leonhard Euler
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Mathematicians have tried in vain to this day to discover some order in the
sequence of prime numbers, and we have reason to believe that it is a mystery
into which the human mind will never penetrate.
... Leonhard Euler


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== Gottfried Leibniz
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Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being
aware that it is counting.
... Gottfried Leibniz


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== John F. Kennedy
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Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The
human mind is our fundamental resource.
... John F. Kennedy


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== Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Science is an enterprise that should be cherished as an activity of the free
human mind. Because it transforms who we are, how we live, and it gives us an
understanding of our place in the universe.
... Neil deGrasse Tyson

The very nature of science is discoveries, and the best of those discoveries are
the ones you don't expect.
... Neil deGrasse Tyson

Somehow it's O.K. for people to chuckle about not being good at math. Yet if I
said, 'I never learned to read,' they'd say I was an illiterate dolt.
... Neil deGrasse Tyson

Physics is the only profession in which prophecy is not only accurate but
routine.
... Neil deGrasse Tyson

If God is the mystery of the universe, these mysteries, we're tackling these
mysteries one by one. If you're going to stay religious at the end of the
conversation, God has to mean more to you than just where science has yet to
tread.
... Neil deGrasse Tyson

We define ourselves as intelligent. That's odd, because we're doing the
definition - We're creating our own definition and saying, 'We are intelligent!'
... Neil deGrasse Tyson


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== Michio Kaku
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Humans are natural-born scientists. When we're born, we want to know why the
stars shine. We want to know why the sun rises.
... Michio Kaku

Futurism today is led by science-fiction writers, by sociologists, by
historians. Now, I have nothing against them. I'm sure they do great work. But
they're not scientists. They're clueless.
... Michio Kaku

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== Arthur Eddington
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Something unknown is doing we don't know what.
... Arthur Eddington

If your theory is found to be against the second law of theromodynamics, I give
you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation.
... Arthur Eddington