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You can stop splitting the atom; you can stop visiting the moon; you can stop using aerosols; you may even decide not…
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Molecular biology is essentially the practice of biochemistry without a license.
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One of the most insidious and nefarious properties of scientific models is their tendency to take over, and sometimes supplant, reality.
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Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question 'How?' but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question 'Why?'
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He [said of one or other eminent colleagues] is a very busy man, and half of what he publishes is true, but…
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Life is the continuing intervention of the inexplicable.
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Scientific fashions last longer than women's fashions but not as long as men's
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There are no such men today. We have created a mechanism that makes it practically impossible for a real genius to appear.…
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Science is now the craft of the manipulation, substitution and deflection of the forces of nature. What I see coming is a…
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If you can modify a cell, it's only a short step to modifying a mouse, and if you can modify a mouse,…
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The results serve to disprove the tetranucleotide hypothesis. It is, however, noteworthy-whether this is more than accidental, cannot yet be said-that in…
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There is no question in my mind that we live in one of the truly bestial centuries in human history. There are…
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I taught principally German language and literature at Eton. But any master with private pupils must be prepared to teach anything they…
— John le Carre
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In early times some sufferer had to sit up with a toothache, and he put in the time inventing the German language.
— Mark Twain
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I don't believe there is anything in the whole earth that you can't learn in Berlin except the German language.
— Mark Twain
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It is not like studying German, where you mull along, in a groping, uncertain way, for thirty years; and at last, just…
— Mark Twain
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Heinrich Heine so loosened the corsets of the German language that today every little salesman can fondle her breasts.
— Karl Kraus
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I have eighteen titles in the German language. I had a number one song in 1965.
— Wanda Jackson
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An exciting and yet highly lucid account of the formation and significance of Karl Kraus's modernist journalism, an activity that Walter Benjamin…
— Unknown Author
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Today, for a Jew who writes in the German language, it is totally impossible to make a living. In no group do…
— Stefan Zweig
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It's great that in the German language I've sold almost 30 million books. Isn't that amazing?
— Ken Follett
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The narrow slit through which the scientist, if he wants to be successful, must view nature constructs, if this goes on for…
— Erwin Chargaff
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The German language speaks Being, while all the others merely speak of Being.
— Martin Heidegger
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