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• Authority in science exists to be questioned, since heresy is the spring from which new ideas flow.
• The eye searches for shapes. It searches for a beginning, a middle, and an end.
• Science is an enterprise that can only flourish if it puts the truth ahead of nationality, ethnicity, class and color.
• It is folly to use as one's guide in the selection of fundamental science the criterion of utility. Not because (scientists)... despise…
• I knew, however, that it would cost ten times what I had available in order to build a molecular beam machine. I…
• It takes a trained and discerning researcher to keep the goal in sight, and to detect evidence of the creeping progress toward…
• Young people ask me if this country is serious about science. They aren't thinking about the passport that they will hold, but…
• Reality is no less precious if it presents itself to someone else. All are discoverers, and if we disenfranchise any, all suffer.
• Though we explore in a culturally-conditioned way, the reality we sketch is universal.
• Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good.
• The applause is a celebration not only of the actors but also of the audience. It constitutes a shared moment of delight.
• Today, Academies of Science use their influence around the world in support of human rights.

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