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Science is a cooperative enterprise spanning the generations. It's the passing of a torch from teacher to student to teacher. A community of minds, reaching…

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The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things in life like love, meaning, motivation,…
With one linear centimeter of your lower colon there lives and works more bacteria (about 100 billion) that all humans who have…
The great tragedy is that they're removing art completely, not because they're putting more science in, but because they can't afford the…
After your first job, is anyone asking you what your GPA was? No, they don't care. They ask you: Are you a…
Does it mean, if you don't understand something, and the community of physicists don't understand it, that means God did it? Is…
I'm optimistic. I see no longer people accepting fuzzy thinking in the world. The change is not that people aren't still saying…
'As a fraction of your tax dollar today, what is the total cost of all spaceborne telescopes, planetary probes, the rovers on…
Countless women are alive today because of ideas stimulated by a design flaw in the Hubble Space Telescope.
I knew Pluto was popular among elementary schoolkids, but I had no idea they would mobilize into a 'Save Pluto' campaign. I…
In the movie, the stars above the ship bear no correspondence to any constellations in a real sky. Worse yet, while the…
On Friday the 13th, April 2029, an asteroid large enough to fill the Rose Bowl as though it were an egg cup…
Let us not fool ourselves into thinking we went to the Moon because we are pioneers, or discoverers, or adventurers. We went…

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Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. — Ambrose Bierce
I don't have a mission. I don't have a torch to burn. — Mel Brooks
One torch can dissipate the accumulated darkness of a thousand aeons. — Tilopa
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This is my creed: Happiness is the only good; reason the only torch; justice the only worship, humanity the only religion, and… — Robert Green Ingersoll
It is singular how soon we lose the impression of what ceases to be constantly before us. A year impairs, a luster… — Lord Byron
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The torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans, born in this century... unwilling to witness or permit the slow… — John F. Kennedy
I do not know if you remember the tale of the girl who saves the ship under mutiny by sitting on the… — Isak Dinesen
He was a worshiper of liberty, a friend of the oppressed. A thousand times I have heard him quote these words: 'For… — Robert Green Ingersoll
To the highest leadership among women it is given to hold steadily in one hand the sacred vessels that hold the ancient… — Anna Garlin Spencer
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