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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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