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The full area of ignorance is not mapped. We are at present only exploring the fringes.

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The psychology of a complex mind must differ almost as much from that of a simple, mechanized mind as its psychology would…
As the scene of life would be more the cold emptiness of space than the warm, dense atmosphere of planets, the advantage…
In fact, we will have to give up taking things for granted, even the apparently simple things. We have to learn to…
In England, more than in any other country, science is felt rather than thought. ... A defect of the English is their…
Men will not be content to manufacture life: they will want to improve on it.
The beauty of life is, therefore, geometrical beauty of a type that Plato would have much appreciated.
The full area of ignorance is not mapped. We are at present only exploring the fringes.
It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance…
Pauling was shocked by the freedom with which the X-ray crystallographers of the time, including particularly Astbury, played with the intimate chemical…
We will have to give up taking things for granted, even the apparently simple things.
A part of sexuality may go to research, and a much larger part must lead to aesthetic creation. The art of the…
Hunger and sex still dominate the primitive mammalian side of human existence, but at the present time it looks as if humanity…

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Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can… — Margaret Atwood
We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion. Many refuse to admit it:… — Ansel Adams
If I go out into nature, into the unknown, to the fringes of knowledge, everything seems mixed up and contradictory, illogical, and… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
The full area of ignorance is not mapped. We are at present only exploring the fringes. — John Desmond Bernal
Well, I do think, particularly the way I work, the better images occur when you're moving to the fringes of your own… — Jerry Uelsmann
It is fatal for any body of workers to have forever hanging from the fringes of its skirts other bodies on a… — Florence Kelley
I don't know if I would qualify as mainstream. I think I have managed to function pretty successfully on the fringes of… — Pat Metheny
The moon has set In a bank of jet That fringes the Western sky, The pleiads seven Have sunk from heaven And… — Sappho
I don't take any responsibility for the lunatic fringes of my own religion. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
The priesthood of God has become the eminent power for good in the world. We are no longer a handful of people… — James E. Faust
I believe, in a funny way, the job of the novelist is to be out there on the fringes and speaking for… — Donna Tartt
Having established that good ideas do indeed come in from the cold, start on the fringes and become mainstream, can we make… — Nigel Farage

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