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- The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'
- When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one…
- He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that…
- I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I've been an atheist for years and years, but…
- Knowledge is indivisible. When people grow wise in one direction, they are sure to make it easier for themselves to grow wise in other directions…
- The dangers that face the world can, every one of them, be traced back to science. The salvations that may save the world will, every…
- Pierre Curie, a brilliant scientist, happened to marry a still more brilliant one-Marie, the famous Madame Curie-and is the only great scientist in history who…
- No one suggests that writing about science will turn the entire world into a model of judgment and creative thought. It will be enough if…
- I made up my mind long ago to follow one cardinal rule in all my writing-to be clear. I have given up all thought of…
- One thought that occurs to me is that men will continue to withdraw from nature in order to create an environment that will suit them…
- It is quite clear that as long as the nations of the world spend most of their energy, money, and emotional strength in quarreling with…
- Inertia! Our ruling class knows one law; no change. Despotism! They know one rule; force. Maldistribution! They know one desire; to hold what is theirs.
- Why continue? Because we must. Because we have the call. Because it is nobler to fight for rationality without winning than to give up in…
- He always pictured himself a libertarian, which to my way of thinking means "I want the liberty to grow rich and you can have the…
- To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.
- ...democracy cannot survive overpopulation. Human dignity cannot survive it. Convenience and decency cannot survive it. As you put more and more people into the world,…
- I don't subscribe to the thesis, 'Let the buyer beware,' I prefer the disregarded one that goes, 'Let the seller be honest.'
- Before another century is done it will be hard for people to imagine a time when humanity was confined to one world, and it will…
- One might suppose that reality must be held to at all costs. However, though that may be the moral thing to do, it is not…
- We mythologists know very well that myths and legends contain borrowings, moral lessons, nature cycles, and a hundred other distorting influences, and we labor to…
- Since emotions are few and reasons are many (said the robot Giscard) the behavior of a crowd can be more easily predicted than the behavior…
- I made up my mind long ago to follow one cardinal rule in all my writing — to be clear.
- One of Walt Whitman's best-known poems is this one: When I heard the learn'd astronomer,.... The trouble is, Whitman is talking through his hat, but…
- It took me thirty-six years; and, in some fifty stories, ranging in length from short-shorts to novels, I think I must have touched, in one…
- Until now in world's history, whenever we've had a dark age, its been temporary and local. And other parts of the world have been doing…
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