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Evolution in the biosphere is therefore a necessarily irreversible process defining a direction in time; a direction which is the same as…
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Even today a good many distinguished minds seem unable to accept or even to understand that from a source of noise natural…
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In science there is and will remain a Platonic element which could not be taken away without ruining it. Among the infinite…
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The future of mankind is going to be decided within the next two generations, and there are two absolute requisites: We must…
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A totally blind process can by definition lead to anything; it can even lead to vision itself.
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The fundamental biological variant is DNA. That is why Mendel's definition of the gene as the unvarying bearer of hereditary traits, its…
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Among all the occurrences possible in the universe the a priori probability of any particular one of them verges upon zero. Yet…
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Man at last knows that he is alone in the unfeeling immensity of the universe, out of which he emerged only by…
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...the scientific attitude implies what I call the postulate of objectivity-that is to say, the fundamental postulate that there is no plan,…
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There are living systems; there is no living "matter." No substance, no single molecule, extracted and isolated from a living being possess,…
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One of the great problems of philosophy, is the relationship between the realm of knowledge and the realm of values. Knowledge is…
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Every living being is also a fossil. Within it, all the way down to the microscopic structure of its proteins, it bears…
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We profess to teach the principles and practice of medicine, or, in other words, the science and art of medicine. Science is…
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Among all the occurrences possible in the universe the a priori probability of any particular one of them verges upon zero. Yet…
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I have a peculiar theory about radium, and I believe it is the correct one. I believe that there is some mysterious…
— Thomas A. Edison
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The saying that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing is, to my mind, a very dangerous adage. If knowledge is real…
— Thomas Huxley
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It is going to be necessary that everything that happens in a finite volume of space and time would have to be…
— Richard P. Feynman
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Foreshadowings of the principles and even of the language of [the infinitesimal] calculus can be found in the writings of Napier, Kepler,…
— W. W. Rouse Ball
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[P]olitical and social and scientific values ... should be correlated in some relation of movement that could be expressed in mathematics, nor…
— Henry Adams
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We do not live in a time when knowledge can be extended along a pathway smooth and free from obstacles, as at…
— Unknown Author
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And all this madness, all this rage, all this flaming death of our civilization and our hopes, has been brought about because…
— Bertrand Russell
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To be whole and harmonious, man must also know the music of the beaches and the woods. He must find the thing…
— William O. Douglas
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I never am really satisfied that I understand anything; because, understand it well as I may, my comprehension can only be an…
— Ada Lovelace
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What if you let go of every bit of control and every urge that you have, right down to the most infinitesimal…
— Adyashanti
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