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Authority in science exists to be questioned, since heresy is the spring from which new ideas flow.
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The eye searches for shapes. It searches for a beginning, a middle, and an end.
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Science is an enterprise that can only flourish if it puts the truth ahead of nationality, ethnicity, class and color.
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It is folly to use as one's guide in the selection of fundamental science the criterion of utility. Not because (scientists)... despise…
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I knew, however, that it would cost ten times what I had available in order to build a molecular beam machine. I…
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It takes a trained and discerning researcher to keep the goal in sight, and to detect evidence of the creeping progress toward…
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Young people ask me if this country is serious about science. They aren't thinking about the passport that they will hold, but…
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Reality is no less precious if it presents itself to someone else. All are discoverers, and if we disenfranchise any, all suffer.
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Though we explore in a culturally-conditioned way, the reality we sketch is universal.
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Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good.
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The applause is a celebration not only of the actors but also of the audience. It constitutes a shared moment of delight.
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Today, Academies of Science use their influence around the world in support of human rights.
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Tell troth and shame the devil.
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I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov'd?
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I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I Did, till we loved? were we not weaned till then? But sucked on…
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Time trieth troth in every doubt.
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Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey.
— John Charles Polanyi
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But, indeed, words are very rascals, since bonds [vows] disgraced them." Viola: "Thy reason, man?" Feste: "Troth [Truthfully], sir, I can yield…
— William Shakespeare
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By my troth, I care not; a man can die but once; we owe God a death and let it go which…
— William Shakespeare
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I envy not in any moods The captive void of noble rage, The linnet born within the cage, That never knew the…
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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But pearls are for tears, the old legend says," Gilbert had objected. "I'm not afraid of that. And tears can be happy…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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This Force, by troth, I'll never comprehend! It doth control and also doth obey? And 'tis within and yet it is beyond,…
— Ian Doescher
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Time tries the troth in everything.
— Thomas Tusser
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