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• It is often claimed that knowledge multiplies so rapidly that nobody can follow it. I believe this is incorrect. At least in…
• The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.
• [Chemistry] laboratory work was my first challenge. ... I still carry the scars of my first discovery-that test-tubes are fragile.
• Science attempts to find logic and simplicity in nature. Mathematics attempts to establish order and simplicity in human thought.
• Today's science is tomorrow's technology.
• Today, nothing is unusual about a scientific discovery's being followed soon after by a technical application: The discovery of electrons led to…
• In the history of physics, there have been three great revolutions in thought that first seemed absurd yet proved to be true.…
• The scientist is not responsible for the laws of nature. It is his job to find out how these laws operate. It…
• Two paradoxes are better than one they may even suggest a solution.
• On May 7, a few weeks after the accident at Three-Mile Island, I was in Washington. I was there to refute some…
• Society's emissions of carbon dioxide may or may not turn out to have something significant to do with global warming-the jury is…
• The extinction of the human race will come from its inability to EMOTIONALLY comprehend the exponential function.

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