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Consider now the Milky Way. Here also we see an innumerable dust, only the grains of this dust are no longer atoms…
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Why is it that showers and even storms seem to come by chance, so that many people think it quite natural to…
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It is by logic we prove. It is by intuition we discover.
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In one word, to draw the rule from experience, one must generalize; this is a necessity that imposes itself on the most…
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It is a misfortune for a science to be born too late when the means of observation have become too perfect. That…
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Every phenomenon, however trifling it be, has a cause, and a mind infinitely powerful, and infinitely well-informed concerning the laws of nature…
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Tolstoi explains somewhere in his writings why, in his opinion, "Science for Science's sake" is an absurd conception. We cannot know all…
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I then began to study arithmetical questions without any great apparent result, and without suspecting that they could have the least connexion…
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It is often said that experiments should be made without preconceived ideas. That is impossible. Not only would it make every experiment…
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Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations between objects.
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What is it indeed that gives us the feeling of elegance in a solution, in a demonstration?
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It is far better to foresee even without certainty than not to foresee at all.
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Reliable people have been seeing the phenomenon known as flying saucers for a thousand years and more. There are good reports as…
— Morris K. Jessup
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Then came the gadgeteer, otherwise known as the sporting-goods dealer. He has draped the American outdoorsman with an infinity of contraptions, all…
— Aldo Leopold
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A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into…
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The rawness and the richness of music on vinyl almost went away, but it still seems to be on a lot of…
— Billy Gibbons
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Music has generally involved a lot of awkward contraptions, a certain amount of heavy lifting.
— Tom Waits
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He wanted to fly in lightweight contraptions with her.
— Dave Eggers
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Im's offspring stare at stars and make clocks that calculate useless happenings like the angle of a hawk's claws as it strikes…
— Ilona Andrews
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That's the beauty of it. Have you seen the contraptions these magicians build to accomplish the most mundane feats? They are a…
— Erin Morgenstern
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It's toys, boy, all toys. You'll see more and more contraptions as you get older, but if I teach you anything, you'll…
— Stefan Petrucha
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Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority.
— Henri Poincare
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Neutrinos alone, among all the known particles, have ethereal properties that are striking and romantic enough both to have inspired a poem…
— Lawrence M. Krauss
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