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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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For an Apple is in it self a little Universe; the Seed, hotter than the other parts thereof, is its Sun, which…
— Cyrano de Bergerac
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My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again…
— Orson Scott Card
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The distinguishing of the strata, or layers, in the embryonic membrane was a turning-point in the study of the history of evolution,…
— Karl Ernst von Baer
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Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage...true success follows every right step.
— Orison Swett Marden
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... suicide gets in the air sometimes. Like a cold germ.
— Stephen King
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True goodness is not without that germ of greatness that can bear with patience the mistakes of the ignorant.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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If you're anxious to shine in the high aesthetic line as a man of culture rare, you must get up all the…
— W. S. Gilbert
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It's a mystery of parenthood that your son can give mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to a stray, worm-riddled dog, share a piece of re-chewed…
— Kathy Lette
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Man is a little germ that lives on an unimportant rock ball that revolves about a small star at the outskirts of…
— Alan Watts
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Of all the enemies to public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ…
— James Madison
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Very well, then, where do we arrive? Where do we arrive with our respect, our homage, our filial affection? At Adam! At…
— Mark Twain
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On man when he came into life the Father conferred the seeds of all kinds and the germs of every way of…
— Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
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