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Understanding a theory has, indeed, much in common with understanding a human personality. We may know or understand a man's system of dispositions pretty well;… — Karl Popper
I approached the bulk of my schoolwork as a chore rather than an intellectual adventure. The tedium was relieved by a few courses that seem… — Steven Chu
We are at our human finest, dancing with our minds, when there are more choices than two. Sometimes there are ten, even twenty different ways… — Lewis Thomas
The different religions have never overlooked the part played by the sense of guilt in civilization. What is more, they come forward with a claim...to… — Sigmund Freud
Jesus does not divide the world into the moral "good guys" and the immoral "bad guys". He shows us that everyone is dedicated to a… — Timothy Keller
During the time that [Karl] Landsteiner gave me an education in the field of imununology, I discovered that he and I were thinking about the… — Linus Pauling
It is very different to make a practical system and to introduce it. A few experiments in the laboratory would prove the practicability of system… — Thomas A. Edison
Natural science is founded on minute critical views of the general order of events taking place upon our globe, corrected, enlarged, or exalted by experiments,… — Humphry Davy
In that memorable year, 1822: Oersted, a Danish physicist, held in his hands a piece of copper wire, joined by its extremities to the two… — Louis Pasteur
It is notorious that the same discovery is frequently made simultaneously and quite independently, by different persons. Thus, to speak of only a few cases… — Francis Galton
[This] may prove to be the beginning of some embracing generalization, which will throw light, not only on radioactive processes, but on elements in general… — Frederick Soddy
We can remove poverty from the surface of the earth only if we can redesign our institutions - like the banking institutions, and other institutions;… — Muhammad Yunus
In so far as such developments utilise the natural energy running to waste, as in water power, they may be accounted as pure gain. But… — Frederick Soddy
It is presumed that there exists a great unity in nature, in respect of the adequacy of a single cause to account for many different… — Immanuel Kant
Perhaps we see equations as simple because they are easily expressed in terms of mathematical notation already invented at an earlier stage of development of… — Murray Gell-Mann
Why is geometry often described as 'cold' and 'dry?' One reason lies in its inability to describe the shape of a cloud, a mountain, a… — Benoit Mandelbrot
I confess, that very different from you, I do find sometimes scientific inspiration in mysticism ... but this is counterbalanced by an immediate sense for… — Wolfgang Pauli
Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things. — Henri Poincare
The mathematics clearly called for a set of underlying elementary objects-at that time we needed three types of them-elementary objects that could be combined three… — Murray Gell-Mann
There is no more important rule of conduct in the world than this: attach yourself as much as you can to people who are abler… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them. — Maurice Maeterlinck
What people need and what they want may be very different. — Elbert Hubbard
We're all generous, but with different things, like time, money, talent - criticism. — Frank A. Clark
The psychology of a language which, in one way or another, is imposed upon one because of factors beyond one's control, is very different from… — Edward Sapir
I do not wish to be misunderstood upon this subject of slavery in this country. I suppose it may long exist, and perhaps the best… — Abraham Lincoln

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