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The psychology of a complex mind must differ almost as much from that of a simple, mechanized mind as its psychology would…
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As the scene of life would be more the cold emptiness of space than the warm, dense atmosphere of planets, the advantage…
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In fact, we will have to give up taking things for granted, even the apparently simple things. We have to learn to…
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In England, more than in any other country, science is felt rather than thought. ... A defect of the English is their…
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Men will not be content to manufacture life: they will want to improve on it.
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The beauty of life is, therefore, geometrical beauty of a type that Plato would have much appreciated.
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The full area of ignorance is not mapped. We are at present only exploring the fringes.
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It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance…
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Pauling was shocked by the freedom with which the X-ray crystallographers of the time, including particularly Astbury, played with the intimate chemical…
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We will have to give up taking things for granted, even the apparently simple things.
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A part of sexuality may go to research, and a much larger part must lead to aesthetic creation. The art of the…
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Hunger and sex still dominate the primitive mammalian side of human existence, but at the present time it looks as if humanity…
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There are no such men today. We have created a mechanism that makes it practically impossible for a real genius to appear.…
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Pauling was shocked by the freedom with which the X-ray crystallographers of the time, including particularly Astbury, played with the intimate chemical…
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Linus Pauling would have us believe and perhaps correctly, that enough vitamin C will have us live another 20 or 30 years,…
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Dad was a chemistry professor at Saint Olaf College in Minnesota, then Oxford College in Minnesota, and a very active member of…
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