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The major credit I think Jim and I deserve ... is for selecting the right problem and sticking to it. It's true that by blundering… — Francis Crick
No aphorism is more frequently repeated in connection with field trials, than that we must ask Nature few questions, or, ideally, one question, at a… — Ronald Fisher
When asked ... [about] an underlying quantum world, Bohr would answer, 'There is no quantum world. There is only an abstract quantum physical description. It… — Niels Bohr
For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that can alone answer the question: What is mathematics? — Richard Courant
I never could do anything with figures, never had any talent for mathematics, never accomplished anything in my efforts at that rugged study, and to-day… — Mark Twain
You propound a complicated arithmetical problem: say cubing a number containing four digits. Give me a slate and half an hour's time, and I can… — George Bernard Shaw
I told him that for a modern scientist, practicing experimental research, the least that could be said, is that we do not know. But I… — Albert Claude
Who wants to become a writer? And why? Because it's the answer to everything. ... It's the streaming reason for living. To note, to pin… — Enid Bagnold
If you want to simplify your life, meditation is the answer. If you want to fulfil your life, meditation is the answer. If you want… — Sri Chinmoy
Style is the answer to everything. A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing. To do a dull thing with style is preferable… — Charles Bukowski
If you ask why we should obey God, in the last resort the answer is, 'I am.' To know God is to know that our… — C.S. Lewis
The essence of any religion lies solely in the answer to the question: why do I exist, and what is my relationship to the infinite… — Leo Tolstoy
Religion has only one answer and that answer is meditation. And meditation means how to empty yourself. — Rajneesh
The trouble with school is they give you the answer, then they give you the exam. That's not life. — Robert Kiyosaki
Our job this day is to become part of the answer to the world's immense and protracted suffering rather than continuing our ancient task of… — Hugh Prather
If the prisoner should ask the judge whether he would be content to be hanged, were he in his case, he would answer no. Then,… — John Selden
Easter is always the answer to "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me!" — Madeleine L'Engle
Neo-Darwinian language and conceptual structure itself ensures scientific failure: Major questions posed by zoologists cannot be answered from inside the neo-Darwinian straitjacket. Such questions include,… — Lynn Margulis
There are times when I feel that he has withdrawn from me, and I have often given him cause, but Easter is always the answer… — Madeleine L'Engle
Rifles, muskets, long-bows and hand-grenades are inherently democratic weapons. A complex weapon makes the strong stronger, while a simple weapon - so long as there… — George Orwell

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