In a sense, fantasy is a freer play of the imagination. You can achieve exactly the situation you want with less groundwork,… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
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There is a certain category of fool-the overeducated, the academic, the journalist, the newspaper reader, the mechanistic scientist, the pseudo-empiricist, those endowed… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
It is not intuitive ease I am after, but rather a point of view which is sufficiently definite to clear up some… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
I notice that, in the lecture … which Prof. Lowry gave recently, in Paris … he brought forward certain freak formulae for… — Henry Edward Armstrong Copy Share Image
Child! Turn your face to the light, to the science, to the reason, to the truth, to the peace! Child! Be modern,… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
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“The scientific gauge is quantity: space, size, and strength of forces can all be reckoned numerically. The comparable "yardstick" in the traditional… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
A DNA sequence for the genome of bacteriophage ΦX174 of approximately 5,375 nucleotides has been determined using the rapid and simple 'plus… — Frederick Sanger Copy Share Image
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Let us make an arbitrary decision (by a show of hands if necessary) to define the base of every stratigraphical unit in… — D. V. Ager Copy Share Image
“f we view climate changes as our enemy we will always be defeated, for climate will always change. Natural climate change is… — E. Kirsten Peters Copy Share Image
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This is the patent-age of new inventions For killing bodies, and for saving souls, All propagated with the best intentions; Sir Humphrey… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
I understood that you would take the Human Race in the concrete, have exploded the absurd notion of Pope's Essay on Man,… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
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A large section of the idling classes of England get their incomes by believing that Jesus was born of a virgin and… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
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He who is only a traveler learns things at second-hand and by the halves, and is poor authority. We are most interested… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
So, you don't have laughs as a reference point any more, it becomes a bit of a science after that. And the… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
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The knowledge that is suited to our situation and powers, the whole compass of moral, natural, and mathematical science, was neglected by… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
We must take the abiding spiritual values which inhere in the deep experiences of religion in all ages and give them new… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
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