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• The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.

  William Lawrence Bragg

  Knowledge, Learning, Science

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• I don't like it, and I'm sorry I ever had anything to do with it.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Sorry, Apology, Science

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

  Carl Sagan

  Inspirational, Nature, Hipster

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.242, Ballantine Books

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• Try not to become a man of success, but a man of value. Look around at how people want to get more out of life than they put in. A man of value will give more than he receives. Be creative, but make sure that what you create is not a curse for mankind.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Einstein and the Poet: In Search of the Cosmic Man". Book by William Hermanns, p. 143, 1983.

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• A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

  Max Planck

  Death, Truth, Growing Up

  Scientific Autobiography, and Other Papers "Scientific Autobiography" (1948) (translation by Frank Gaynor)

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• I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

  Isaac Newton

  Inspirational, Success, Trust

  Quoted in Christian Monitor, and Religious Intelligencer, 4 July 1812. An almost identical quotation by Newton, said to have been uttered "a little before he died," appears in Joseph Spence, Anecdotes, Observations, and Characters of Books and Men, published in 1820 but extant in manuscript form from around 1730. A paraphrase of Newton's words was printed in a note in a 1797 edition of TheWorks of Alexander Pope.

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• This isn't right. This isn't even wrong.

  Wolfgang Pauli

  Witty, Humorous, Insult

  "The Successful Toastmaster: A Treasure Chest of Introductions, Epigrams, Humor, and Quotations" by Herbert Victor Prochnow, (p. 350), 1966.

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• It would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on earth.

  Daniel Bernoulli

  Math, Science, Would Be

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• When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Beauty, Beautiful, Niece

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• I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Peace, Interesting, People

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History”, p.151, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.

  Edwin Powell Hubble

  Motivational, Travel, Adventure

  Edwin Powell Hubble (1954). “The Nature of Science: And Other Lectures”

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• I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Badass, Knowledge, Science

  Richard P. Feynman (2005). “The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman”, p.21, Hachette UK

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• The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

  Thomas Huxley

  Beauty, Beautiful, Education

  "Biogenesis and Abiogenesis" (1870)

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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, Science

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

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• There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

  Mark Twain

  Math, Science, Return

  Life on the Mississippi ch. 17 (1883)

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• Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.

  Lord Kelvin

  Silly, Creativity, Science

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• Time exists so that everything doesn't happen at once.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Time, White Collar, Timing And Life

  Madeleine L'Engle (2007). “An Acceptable Time”, p.96, Macmillan

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• When I began my career as a cosmologist some twenty years ago, I was a convinced atheist. I never in my wildest dreams imagined that one day I would be writing a book purporting to show that the central claims of Judeo-Christian theology are in fact true, that these claims are straightforward deductions of the laws of physics as we now understand them. I have been forced into these conclusions by the inexorable logic of my own special branch of physics.

  Frank J. Tipler

  Christian, Dream, Atheist

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• I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only a boy playing on the seashore.

  Isaac Newton

  Trust, Teacher, Truth

  Quoted in Christian Monitor, and Religious Intelligencer, 4 July 1812. An almost identical quotation by Newton, said to have been uttered "a little before he died," appears in Joseph Spence, Anecdotes, Observations, and Characters of Books and Men, published in 1820 but extant in manuscript form from around 1730. A paraphrase of Newton's words was printed in a note in a 1797 edition of TheWorks of Alexander Pope.

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• If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living

  Henri Poincare

  Beautiful, Nature, Knowing

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

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• I think physicists are the Peter Pans of the human race. They never grow up and they keep their curiosity.

  Isidor Isaac Rabi

  Growing Up, Thinking, Race

  "The Atomic Scientists, the Sense of Wonder and the Bomb" by Mark Fiege in Enviornmental History, Vol. 12, Issue 3, July 2007.

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• We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology and yet have cleverly arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology.

  Carl Sagan

  Science, Technology, Information Society

  "Bringing Science Back to Earth". Interview with Anne Kalosh, Hemispheres (the magazine of United Airlines), October 1994.

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• In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

  Galileo Galilei

  Truth, Inspiration, Independent

  "Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men". Book by François Arago, as translated by Baden Powell, Robert Grant, and William Fairbairn, p. 365, 1859.

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

  Frank Wilczek

  Funny, Science, Doe

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• Physics isn't a religion. If it were, we'd have a much easier time raising money.

  Leon M. Lederman

  Time, Science, Religion

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