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Almost all the greatest discoveries in astronomy have resulted from what we have elsewhere termed Residual Phenomena, of a qualitative or numerical…
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The end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century were remarkable for the small amount of scientific movement going…
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According to this view of the matter, there is nothing casual in the formation of Metamorphic Rocks. All strata, once buried deep…
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Every student who enters upon a scientific pursuit, especially if at a somewhat advanced period of life, will find not only that…
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All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more strongly the truths come from on high, and…
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[When nature appears complicated:] The moment we contemplate it as it is, and attain a position from which we can take a…
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Speculations apparently the most unprofitable have almost invariably been those from which the greatest practical applications have emanated.
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It can hardly be pressed forcibly enough on the attention of the student of nature, that there is scarcely any natural phenomenon…
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The novel, in its best form, I regard as one of the most powerful engines of civilization ever invented.
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Man is constituted as a speculative being; he contemplates the world, and the objects around him, not with a passive indifferent eye,…
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Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated…
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...Nature builds up her refined and invisible architecture, with a delicacy eluding our conception, yet with a symmetry and beauty which we…
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I've always been fascinated by physics and cosmology. It gets more and more scary the older you get.
— John Banville
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For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a…
— Wernher von Braun
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Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering.
— Arthur C. Clarke
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Very little in science fiction can transcend the gimmickry of a technical conceit, yet without that conceit at its heart a book…
— Janet Morris
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The Europeans and the Americans are not throwing $10 billion down this gigantic tube for nothing. We're exploring the very forefront of…
— Michio Kaku
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For a long time it has been known that the first systems of representations with which men have pictured to themselves the…
— Emile Durkheim
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From the Vedas we learn a practical art of surgery, medicine, music, house building under which mechanized art is included. They are…
— William James
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Both education and religion need to ground themselves within the story of the universe as we now understand this story through empirical…
— Thomas Berry
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I put a lot of effort into writing 'A Briefer History' at a time when I was critically ill with pneumonia because…
— Stephen Hawking
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You can only exclude it on philosophical grounds. In my view there is absolutely nothing wrong in that. What I want to…
— George F. R. Ellis
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The recent developments in cosmology strongly suggest that the universe may be the ultimate free lunch.
— Alan Guth
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There is nothing as dreamy and poetic, nothing as radical, subversive, and psychedelic, as mathematics. It is every bit as mind blowing…
— Paul Lockhart
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