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• You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and…
• The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in…
• Man is unique not because he does science, and his is unique not because he does art, but because science and art…
• It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is…
• Every animal leaves traces of what it was; man alone leaves traces of what he created.
• No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.
• Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked…
• The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation.
• Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.
• The world is made up of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at…
• Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last…
• Einstein was a man who could ask immensely simple questions. And what his work showed is that when the answers are simple…

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