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  Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

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• When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it.

  Lord Kelvin

  Math, Numbers, Measurement

  Popular Lectures and Addresses "Electrical Units of Measurement" (1889).

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• Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.

  Immanuel Kant

  Philosophy, Ocean, Philosophical

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• The man who cannot occasionally imagine events and conditions of existence that are contrary to the causal principle as he knows it will never enrich his science by the addition of a new idea.

  Max Planck

  Men, Ideas, Imagination

  Max Planck (1959). “The new science: 3 complete works: Where is science going? The universe in the light of modern physics; The philosophy of physics”

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• I had always looked upon the search for the absolute as the noblest and most worth while task of science.

  Max Planck

  Tasks, Absolutes

  Max Planck (2014). “Scientific Autobiography: and Other Papers”, p.25, Open Road Media

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• Science of to-day-the superstition of to-morrow. Science of to-morrow-the superstition of to-day.

  Charles Fort

  Superstitions, Tomorrow, Accounts

  Charles Fort (2016). “The Book of the Damned: The Original Classic of Paranormal Exploration”, p.122, Penguin

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• ...physics is the study of the structure of consciousness.

  Gary Zukav

  Study, Consciousness, Physics

  Gary Zukav (1979). “The dancing Wu Li masters: an overview of the new physics”, Bantam

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• Old sciences are unraveled like old stockings, by beginning at the foot.

  Jonathan Swift

  Oxen, Feet, Stockings

  Jonathan Swift (1765). “The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift ...: Accurately Revised ... Adorned with Copper-plates; with Some Account of the Author's Life, and Notes Historical and Explanatory”, p.288

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• Physics is very muddled again at the moment; it is much too hard for me anyway, and I wish I were a movie comedian or something like that and had never heard anything about physics!

  Wolfgang Pauli

  Comedian, Wish, Hearing

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• The rotating armatures of every generator and motor in this age of electricity are steadily proclaiming the truth of the relativity theory to all who have ears to hear.

  Leigh Page

  Age, Ears, Electricity

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• I have also a paper afloat, with an electromagnetic theory of light, which, till I am convinced to the contrary, I hold to be great guns.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Gun, Light, Paper

  James Clerk Maxwell (1995). “The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell:”, p.203, CUP Archive

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• Taken over the centuries, scientific ideas have exerted a force on our civilization fully as great as the more tangible practical applications of scientific research.

  I. Bernard Cohen

  Taken, Civilization, Ideas

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• It would be as useless to perceive how things 'actually look' as it would be to watch the random dots on untuned television screens.

  Marvin Minsky

  Watches, Would Be, Looks

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• A man gazing at the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.

  Alexander Smith

  Wisdom, Stars, Men

  Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.146

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• Poetry is not the proper antithesis to prose, but to science. Poetry is opposed to science, and prose to meter. The proper and immediate object of science is the acquirement, or communication of truth; the proper and immediate object of poetry is the communication of immediate pleasure.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Communication, Prose And Poetry, History

  "Definitions of Poetry" (1811)

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• Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense differing from the latter only as a veteran may differ from a raw recruit: and its methods differ from those of common sense only as far as the guardsman's cut and thrust differ from the manner in which a savage wields his club.

  Thomas Huxley

  Cutting, Common Sense, Savages

  "On the Educational Value of the Natural History Sciences" (1854)

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• Oh, that Einstein, always skipping lectures... I certainly never would have thought he could do it.

  Hermann Minkowski

  Lectures

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• To engage in experiments on heat was always one of my most agreeable employments.

  Benjamin Thompson

  Employment, Heat, Experiments

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• Science is not formal logic-it needs the free play of the mind in as great a degree as any other creative art. It is true that this is a gift which can hardly be taught, but its growth can be encouraged in those who already posses it.

  Max Born

  Art, Play, Creative

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• All we know of the truth is that the absolute truth, such as it is, is beyond our reach.

  Nicholas of Cusa

  Truth Is, Absolute Truth, Knows

  "On Learned Ignorance" by Nicholas of Cusa, 1440.

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• Whenever truth stands in the mind unaccompanied by the evidence upon which it depends, it cannot properly be said to be apprehended at all.

  William Godwin

  Mind, Said, Evidence

  William Godwin, S. Carlyle Potter (191?). “Reflections on Political Justice: Selections from the Writings of William Godwin”

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• Whenever you look at a piece of work and you think the fellow was crazy, then you want to pay some attention to that. One of you is likely to be, and you had better find out which one it is. It makes an awful lot of difference.

  Charles Kettering

  Crazy, Work, Thinking

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• The only way to reconcile science and religion is to set up something which is not science and something that is not religion.

  H. L. Mencken

  Way, Science And Religion, Reconcile

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• There's no system foolproof enough to defeat a sufficiently great fool.

  Edward Teller

  Fool Proof, Defeat, Enough

  "Nuclear Reactions". "Omni" Magazine, May 1988.

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• It was absolutely marvelous working for Pauli. You could ask him anything. There was no worry that he would think a particular question was stupid, since he thought all questions were stupid.

  Victor Frederick Weisskopf

  Funny, Stupid, Thinking

  Victor Frederick Weisskopf, V. Stefan (1998). “Physics and Society: Essays in Honor of Victor Frederick Weisskopf by the International Community of Physicists”, p.74, Springer Science & Business Media

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