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• In this model, the sun is a very tiny speck of dust indeed-a speck less than a three-thousandth of an inch in…
• Humanity is at the very beginning of its existence-a new-born babe, with all the unexplored potentialities of babyhood; and until the last…
• ...nature seems very conversant with the rules of pure mathematics, as our own mathematicians have formulated them in their studies, out of…
• The essential fact is that all the pictures which science now draws of nature, and which alone seem capable of according with…
• We have already considered with disfavour the possibility of the universe having been planned by a biologist or an engineer; from the…
• ...to many it is not knowledge but the quest for knowledge that gives greater interest to thought-to travel hopefully is better than…
• Science should leave off making pronouncements: the river of knowledge has too often turned back on itself.
• Sciences usually advances by a succession of small steps, through a fog in which even the most keen-sighted explorer can seldom see…
• Kant, discussing the various modes of perception by which the human mind apprehends nature, concluded that it is specially prone to see…
• We may as well cut out group theory. That is a subject that will never be of any use in physics.
• The stream of knowledge is heading towards a non-mechanical reality; the universe begins to look more like a great thought than like…
• The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour.[make the best…

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