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Our challenge is to give what account we can of what becomes of life in the solar system, this corner of the…
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We are living in a world in which all wars are wars of defense.
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Nuclear weapons offer us nothing but a balance of terror, and a balance of terror is still terror.
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The only use for an atomic bomb is to keep somebody else from using one. It can give us no protection-only the…
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Four elements, Hydrogen, carbon, oxygen and nitrogen, also provide an example of the astonishing togetherness of our universe. They make up the…
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I tell my students, with a feeling of pride that I hope they will share, that the carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen that…
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A scientist lives with all reality. There is nothing better. To know reality is to accept it, and eventually to love it.
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A scientist should be the happiest of men. Not that science isn't serious; but as everyone knows, being serious is one way…
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Science goes from question to question; big questions, and little, tentative answers. The questions as they age grow ever broader, the answers…
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A scientist is in a sense a learned small boy. There is something of the scientist in every small boy. Others must…
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About two million years ago, man appeared. He has become the dominant species on the earth. All other living things, animal and…
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Every creature alive on the earth today represents an unbroken line of life that stretches back to the first primitive organism to…
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I tell my students, with a feeling of pride that I hope they will share, that the carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen that…
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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations ... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the…
— Hannah Arendt
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Each famous author of antiquity whom I recover places a new offence and another cause of dishonor to the charge of earlier…
— Petrarch
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Princeton has made an enormous difference in my life, and I am delighted to be able to express my gratitude in such…
— Gordon Wu
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Ours is a lost generation, it may be, but it is more blameless than those earlier generations.
— Franz Kafka
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We like to learn all we need from earlier generations, but we have to find out for ourselves what we need; nobody…
— Asger Jorn
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The psychological dangers through which earlier generations were guided by the symbols and spiritual exercises of their mythological and religious inheritance, we…
— Joseph Campbell
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One way or another, I think virtually all of the prophets and early Apostles had their visionary moments of our time--a view…
— Jeffrey R. Holland
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Idealism, unrealistic idealism, is always contrasted with the reality of the people, of the man in the street. The details of daily…
— Orhan Pamuk
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But these realities will make themselves felt soon enough and while I am certainly not asking you to close your eyes to…
— Felix Bloch
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