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  Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.

  Louis Pasteur

  Country, Technology, Humanity

  1876 Toast at the banquet of the International Congress of Sericulture (translated by Rene Dubois).

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• You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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• We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.

  Douglas Adams

  Technology, Want, Stuff

  Douglas Adams (2005). “The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time”, p.117, Del Rey

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• The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widely spread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.

  Bertrand Russell

  Learning, Knowledge, Parenting

  Marriage and Morals ch. 5 (1929)

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• We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.

  Carl Sagan

  Knowledge, Cosmos, Stuff

  Carl Sagan, Tom Head (2006). “Conversations with Carl Sagan”, p.57, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science.

  Albert Einstein

  Education, Real, Creativity

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• Research ! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value.

  Benjamin Jowett

  Achievement, Experience, Research

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• Prediction is difficult, especially the future.

  Niels Bohr

  Predictions, Difficult

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• Very few people do anything creative after the age of thirty-five. The reason is that very few people do anything creative before the age of thirty-five.

  Joel Henry Hildebrand

  Birthday, Drinking, Creativity

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• I believe in an immortal soul. Science has proved that nothing disintegrates into nothingness. Life and soul, therefore, cannot disintegrate into nothingness, and so are immortal.

  Wernher von Braun

  Believe, Soul, Immortal

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• [Science is] the literature of truth.

  Josh Billings

  Literature

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• One curious result of this inertia, which deserves to rank among the fundamental 'laws' of nature, is that when a discovery has finally won tardy recognition it is usually found to have been anticipated, often with cogent reasons and in great detail.

  F. C. S. Schiller

  Discovery, Law, Details

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• The hypotheses we accept ought to explain phenomena which we have observed. But they ought to do more than this: our hypotheses ought to foretell phenomena which have not yet been observed.

  William Whewell

  Accepting, Hypothesis, Ought

  William Whewell (1968). “Theory of Scientific Method”, p.151, Hackett Publishing

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• We must care to think about the unthinkable things, because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and action becomes mindless.

  J. William Fulbright

  Thinking, Care, Action

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• Basic research is like shooting an arrow in the air and, where it lands, painting a target.

  Homer Burton Adkins

  Business, Air, Land

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• There is nothing particularly scientific about excessive caution. Science thrives on daring generalizations.

  Lancelot Hogben

  Daring, Caution, Thrive

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• Experience alone can decide on truth.

  Albert Einstein

  Truth, Lying, Experience

  Albert Einstein (1954). “Ideas and Opinions: Based on Mein Weltbild”

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• Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

  Carl Sagan

  Positive, Hope, Educational

  Nobel Award Ceremony Speech by Professor Olga Botner, Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 2017.

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• There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics. ... We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of Homer.

  Voltaire

  Math, Imagination, Imagine

  Voltaire (2016). “Voltaire – The Philosophical Works: Treatise On Tolerance, Philosophical Dictionary, Candide, Letters on England, Plato’s Dream, Dialogues, The Study of Nature, Ancient Faith and Fable, Zadig…: From the French writer, historian and philosopher, famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion and freedom of expression”, p.1187, e-artnow

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• Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.

  Paul Valery

  Mean, Successful, Technology

  'Moralitès' (1932) p. 41

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• The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Wisdom, Errors, Doors

  Bertolt Brecht (1962). “Plays: The Caucasian chalk circle. The threepenny opera. The trial of Lucullus. The life of Galileo”

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• The universe is not only queerer than we suppose; it is queerer than we can suppose

  Bill Bryson

  Funny, Knowledge, Physics

  Bill Bryson (2014). “A Short History of Nearly Everything”, p.20, Lulu Press, Inc

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• There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

  Hippocrates

  Ignorance, Knowledge, Two

  Hippocrates, Paul Potter (1984). “Hippocrates”

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• The end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started.

  T. S. Eliot

  Travel, Adventure, Ocean Exploration

  Four Quartets "Little Gidding" pt. 5 (1942)

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• Those who study the stars have God for a teacher.

  Tycho Brahe

  God, Teacher, Stars

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