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In fact, we will have to give up taking things for granted, even the apparently simple things. We have to learn to understand nature and…

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The psychology of a complex mind must differ almost as much from that of a simple, mechanized mind as its psychology would…
As the scene of life would be more the cold emptiness of space than the warm, dense atmosphere of planets, the advantage…
In fact, we will have to give up taking things for granted, even the apparently simple things. We have to learn to…
In England, more than in any other country, science is felt rather than thought. ... A defect of the English is their…
Men will not be content to manufacture life: they will want to improve on it.
The beauty of life is, therefore, geometrical beauty of a type that Plato would have much appreciated.
The full area of ignorance is not mapped. We are at present only exploring the fringes.
It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance…
Pauling was shocked by the freedom with which the X-ray crystallographers of the time, including particularly Astbury, played with the intimate chemical…
We will have to give up taking things for granted, even the apparently simple things.
A part of sexuality may go to research, and a much larger part must lead to aesthetic creation. The art of the…
Hunger and sex still dominate the primitive mammalian side of human existence, but at the present time it looks as if humanity…

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There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to… — Jane Austen
People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable. — Samuel Butler
Her great merit is finding out mine; there is nothing so amiable as discernment. — Lord Byron
Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than… — Joseph Addison
She told her, while she kept it, 'Twould make her amiable and subdue my father Entirely to her love, but if she… — William Shakespeare
In fact, we will have to give up taking things for granted, even the apparently simple things. We have to learn to… — John Desmond Bernal
No one is better born than another, unless they are born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition. — Seneca the Elder
A lover is a man who tries to be more amiable than it is possible for him to be. — Nicolas Chamfort
Nobody knows how the stand of our knowledge about the atom would be without him. Personally, [Niels] Bohr is one of the… — Albert Einstein
I am every day more convinced that we women, if we are to be good women, feminine and amiable and domestic, are… — Queen Victoria
If you'd be beloved, make yourself amiable. A true friend is the best possession. — Benjamin Franklin
The truth is that the scientific value of Polar exploration is greatly exaggerated. The thing that takes men on such hazardous trips… — H. L. Mencken

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