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The history of exploration has never been driven by exploration. But Columbus himself was a discoverer. So was Magellan. But the people who wrote checks…

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The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things in life like love, meaning, motivation,…
With one linear centimeter of your lower colon there lives and works more bacteria (about 100 billion) that all humans who have…
The great tragedy is that they're removing art completely, not because they're putting more science in, but because they can't afford the…
After your first job, is anyone asking you what your GPA was? No, they don't care. They ask you: Are you a…
Does it mean, if you don't understand something, and the community of physicists don't understand it, that means God did it? Is…
I'm optimistic. I see no longer people accepting fuzzy thinking in the world. The change is not that people aren't still saying…
'As a fraction of your tax dollar today, what is the total cost of all spaceborne telescopes, planetary probes, the rovers on…
Countless women are alive today because of ideas stimulated by a design flaw in the Hubble Space Telescope.
I knew Pluto was popular among elementary schoolkids, but I had no idea they would mobilize into a 'Save Pluto' campaign. I…
In the movie, the stars above the ship bear no correspondence to any constellations in a real sky. Worse yet, while the…
On Friday the 13th, April 2029, an asteroid large enough to fill the Rose Bowl as though it were an egg cup…
Let us not fool ourselves into thinking we went to the Moon because we are pioneers, or discoverers, or adventurers. We went…

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Man carries the world in his head, the whole astronomy and chemistry suspended in a thought. Because the history of nature is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I must consider the organizer as more important than the discoverer. — Wolfgang Ostwald
Most of the crackpot papers which are submitted to The Physical Review are rejected, not because it is impossible to understand them,… — Freeman Dyson
Having been the discoverer of many splendid things, he is said to have asked his friends and relations that, after his death,… — Archimedes
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No one believes an hypothesis except its originator but everyone believes an experiment except the experimenter. Most people are ready to believe… — William Ian Beardmore Beveridge
If you want to find out anything from the theoretical physicists about the methods they use, I advise you to stick closely… — Albert Einstein
A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

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