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“ Svante Arrhenius , recipient of the Nobel Prize in chemistry (1903), was a declared atheist and the author of The Evolution… — Gordon Stein Copy Share Image
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“One can still say that quantum mechanics is the key to understanding magnetism. When one enters the first room with this key… — John H. Van Vleck Copy Share Image
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“The history of the knowledge of the phenomena of life and of the organized world can be divided into two main periods.… — Paul Ehrlich Copy Share Image
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“My laboratory is interested in the related challenges of understanding the origin of life on the early earth, and constructing synthetic cellular… — Jack W. Szostak Copy Share Image
“In describing a protein it is now common to distinguish the primary, secondary and tertiary structures. The primary structure is simply the… — John Kendrew Copy Share Image
“I cannot understand why we idle discussing religion. If we are honest—and scientists have to be—we must admit that religion is a… — Paul A.M. Dirac Copy Share Image
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“The more important fundamental laws and facts of physical science have all been discovered, and these are now so firmly established that… — Albert Abraham Michelson Copy Share Image
“The generalized theory of relativity has furnished still more remarkable results. This considers not only uniform but also accelerated motion. In particular,… — A.A. Michelson Copy Share Image
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