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• Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.

  William James

  Law, Together, Decay

  William James (1986). “Essays in Psychical Research”, p.101, Harvard University Press

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• Advances are Made by Answering Questions. Discoveries are Made by Questioning Answers.

  Bernard Haisch

  Wisdom, Discovery, Answers

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• Don't worry about people stealing your ideas.

  Howard Aiken

  Business, Office Work, Ideas

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

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• It is my view that these circumstances indicate the universe was created for man to live in.

  Robert Jastrow

  Men, Views, If There Is A God

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• [Mystery] is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.

  Albert Einstein

  Art, Opening Your Mind, Fundamentals

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• A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Education, Honesty

  Quoted in Peter Michelmore' s Einstein (p. 20)

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• Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Leadership, Responsibility

  Albert Einstein (1970). “Albert Einstein: philosopher-scientist”

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• Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

  William James

  Creativity, Mean, Imagination

  William James (2012). “Psychology: The Briefer Course”, p.195, Courier Corporation

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• So vast is art, so narrow human wit.

  Alexander Pope

  Art, Genius, Architecture

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1854). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope: with a life”, p.5

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• It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.

  Robert H. Goddard

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

  Mark Twain

  Change, Loyalty, Courage

  Speech, Hartford, Conn., 1884

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• The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Death

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.401, Courier Corporation

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  Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.

  Frank Zappa

  Positive, Inspiring, Autism

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• It doesn't matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.

  Thomas Sowell

  Smart, Thinking, Matter

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• The altar cloth of one aeon is the doormat of the next.

  Mark Twain

  Change, Religion, Next

  Mark Twain (1972). “Everyone's Mark Twain”

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• A common sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a superintellect has monkeyed with physics.

  Fred Hoyle

  If There Is A God, Common Sense, Tuning

  "The Universe: Past and Present Reflections". "Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics", volume 20, p. 16, September 1982.

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• All life is linked together in such a way that no part of the chain is unimportant. Frequently, upon the action of some of these minute beings depends the material success or failure of a great commonwealth.

  John Henry Comstock

  Life, Success, Failure

  John Henry Comstock (1897). “Insect Life: An Introduction to Nature-study and a Guide for Teachers, Students, and Others Interested in Out-of-door Life”

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• Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.

  Laurence Sterne

  Wisdom, Intelligence, May

  Tristam Shandy

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• Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.

  Alan Turing

  Religion, Boundaries, Mathematician

  Epigram to Robin Gandy, 1954. "Alan Turing: The Enigma". Book by Andrew Hodges, p. 513, 1992.

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• There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Inspirational, Truth, Play

  Dialogues prologue (1954)

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• In science it often happens that scientists say, "You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken..."

  Carl Sagan

  Change, Theoretical Physics, Dna

  Keynote address at CSICOP conference, 1987.

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• What are the sciences but maps of universal laws, and universal laws but the channels of universal power; and universal power but the outgoings of a universal mind?

  Edward Thomson

  Law, Mind, Maps

  Edward Thomson (1872). “Evidences of Revealed Religion”, p.52

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  Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Freedom, Independent, Political Will

  Andrew M. Allison, Willard Cleon Skousen, M. Richard Maxfield, Benjamin Franklin (1982). “The Real Benjamin Franklin”

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• If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

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• Our entire much-praised technological progress, and civilization generally, could be compared to an axe in the hand of a pathological criminal.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, Motivational

  Letter to Heinrich Zangger (1917), as quoted in "Albert Einstein: A Biography" by Albrecht Fölsing, (p. 399), 1997.

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