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• Science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgements of all kinds remain necessary.

  Albert Einstein

  Judgement, Kind, Domain

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.22, Open Road Media

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• Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.

  Lord Kelvin

  Silly, Creativity, Stupid People

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• Biologists can be just as sensitive to heresy as theologians.

  H. G. Wells

  Sensitive, Theologian, Biologist

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• There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior to investigation.

  Herbert Spencer

  Wisdom, Ignorance, Men

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• Those who are enslaved to their sects are not merely devoid of all sound knowledge, but they will not even stop to learn!

  Galen

  Inspirational, Sound, Sects

  Galen, Arthur John Brock (1991). “On the natural faculties”, Loeb Classical Library

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• I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it is much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong. If we will only allow that, as we progress, we remain unsure, we will leave opportunities for alternatives. We will not become enthusiastic for the fact, the knowledge, the absolute truth of the day, but remain always uncertain … In order to make progress, one must leave the door to the unknown ajar.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Opportunity, Thinking, Doors

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• Scientist alone is true poet he gives us the moon he promises the stars he'll make us a new universe if it comes to that.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Stars, Moon, Giving

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• Poetry creates life; Science dissects death.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Death, Accounts

  Frederick William Robertson (1852). “Two lectures on the influence of poetry on the working classes”, p.23

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• Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.

  Howard Aiken

  Life And Love, Business, Congratulations

  "A Computer Science Reader : Selections from Abacus" by Eric A. Weiss, (p. 404), 1988.

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• Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Spring, Believe, Technology

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.180, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.

  Niels Bohr

  Understanding, Selfless, Affirmation

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Errors, Long, Use

  1905 Heretics, ch.13.

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• After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.

  Marie Curie

  History, Historical, Quality

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• Curiosity has its own reason for existence.

  Albert Einstein

  Learning, Awe And Wonder, Eternity Of Life

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.425, Princeton University Press

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

  Carl Sagan

  Ambition, Perfect, Environmental

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.230, Ballantine Books

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• Chance favors the prepared mind.

  Louis Pasteur

  Inspirational, Softball, Sports

  Lecture, University of Lille, December 7б 1854.

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• The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses.

  Albert Einstein

  Atheist, Expression, Religion

  "Childish superstition: Einstein's letter makes view of religion relatively clear" by James Randerson, www.theguardian.com. May 13, 2008.

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• The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Positive, Knowledge

  "János : The Story of a Doctor" by János Plesch, translated by Edward FitzGerald, 1947.

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• To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

  Albert Einstein

  Real, Creativity, Asking Questions

  Albert Einstein, Leopold Infeld (1966). “Evolution of Physics”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

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• We have guided missiles and misguided men.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Peace, War, Men

  Strength to Love ch. 7 (1963)

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• The human mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with a similar energy.

  William Beveridge

  Peace, Ideas, Mind

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• I find it quite improbable that such order came out of chaos. There has to be some organizing principle. God to me is a mystery, but is the explanation for the miracle of existence, why there is something instead of nothing.

  Allan Sandage

  God, Order, Design

  "Sizing up the Cosmos: An Astronomer's Quest" by John Noble Wilford, www.nytimes.com. March 12, 1991.

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• Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world.

  Albert Einstein

  Mind, Investing, World

  Albert Einstein, Leopold Infeld (1966). “Evolution of Physics”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.

  Thomas Huxley

  Motivational, Open Minded, Skepticism

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1997). “The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.359, University of Georgia Press

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