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• Our challenge is to give what account we can of what becomes of life in the solar system, this corner of the…
• We are living in a world in which all wars are wars of defense.
• Nuclear weapons offer us nothing but a balance of terror, and a balance of terror is still terror.
• The only use for an atomic bomb is to keep somebody else from using one. It can give us no protection-only the…
• Four elements, Hydrogen, carbon, oxygen and nitrogen, also provide an example of the astonishing togetherness of our universe. They make up the…
• I tell my students, with a feeling of pride that I hope they will share, that the carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen that…
• A scientist lives with all reality. There is nothing better. To know reality is to accept it, and eventually to love it.
• A scientist should be the happiest of men. Not that science isn't serious; but as everyone knows, being serious is one way…
• Science goes from question to question; big questions, and little, tentative answers. The questions as they age grow ever broader, the answers…
• A scientist is in a sense a learned small boy. There is something of the scientist in every small boy. Others must…
• About two million years ago, man appeared. He has become the dominant species on the earth. All other living things, animal and…
• Every creature alive on the earth today represents an unbroken line of life that stretches back to the first primitive organism to…

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