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    Richard P. Feynman
    “I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong.”
    ― Richard P. Feynman, The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman
    tags: knowledge, physics, science
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    Edward O. Wilson
    “Social intelligence was therefore always at a high premium. A sharp sense of empathy can make a huge difference, and with it in an ability to manipulate, to gain cooperation, and to deceive.”
    ― Edward O. Wilson, The Social Conquest of Earth
    tags: empathy, evolution, science, social-intelligence
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    Albert Einstein
    “We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life. All that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.”
    ― Albert Einstein
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    Robert M. Pirsig
    “Science grows by its mu answers more than by its yes or no answers.”
    ― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
    tags: science
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    Edward O. Wilson
    “Real scientists do not take vacations. They take field trips...”
    ― Edward O. Wilson
    tags: curiosity, exploration, science
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    Paul Valéry
    “Science is a collection of successful recipes.”
    ― Paul Valéry
    tags: epistemology, practical, science
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    “The thing is, it's very dangerous to have a fixed idea. A person with a fixed idea will always find some way of convincing himself in the end that he is right”
    ― Atle Selberg
    tags: evidence, open-mindedness, science
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    Freeman Dyson
    “A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible.”
    ― Freeman Dyson
    tags: inspirational, intellectual, science
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    David Langford
    “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a completely ad hoc plot device.”
    ― David Langford
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    John Stuart Mill
    “I believe in spectacles, but I think eyes necessary too.”
    ― John Stuart Mill
    tags: philosophy, poetry, science
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    Stephen Jay Gould
    “Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information; it is a creative human activity.”
    ― Stephen Jay Gould
    tags: science
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “Science never solves a problem without creating ten more”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: science
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    Niels Bohr
    “Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.”
    ― niels bohr
    tags: reality
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    Stanisław Lem
    “We don't want to conquer the cosmos, we simply want to extend the boundaries of Earth to the frontiers of the cosmos.”
    ― Stanisław Lem, Solaris
    tags: lem, science, solaris
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    Aldo Leopold
    “One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds.”
    ― Aldo Leopold
    tags: education, environment, science
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    Luther Burbank
    “Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine to the mind.”
    ― Luther Burbank
    tags: flowers, happiness, helpfulness, medicine, science, sunshine
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    Robert M. Sapolsky
    “If a rat is a good model for your emotional life, you're in big trouble.
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    ― Robert M. Sapolsky
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    Richard P. Feynman
    “I have no responsibility to live up to what others expect of me. That's their mistake, not my failing.”
    ― Richard P. Feynman
    tags: inspirational, science
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    Albert Einstein
    “I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.”
    ― Albert Einstein, On Cosmic Religion and Other Opinions and Aphorisms
    tags: evolution, imagination, knowledge, science
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    S.J. Perelman
    “I guess I'm just an old mad scientist at bottom. Give me an underground laboratory, half a dozen atom-smashers, and a beautiful girl in a diaphanous veil waiting to be turned into a chimpanzee, and I care not who writes the nation's laws.”
    ― S.J. Perelman
    tags: government, sci-fi, science, science-fiction
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  • #21
    “Consider the Lichen. Lichens are just about the hardiest visible organisms on Earth, but the least ambitious.”
    ― Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything
    tags: science
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    Johannes Kepler
    “Discover the force of the skies O Men: once recognised it can be put to use.”
    ― Johannes Kepler, Epitome of Copernican Astronomy and Harmonies of the World
    tags: astronomy, inspirational, science, space, universe
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    Max Planck
    “An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature and a measurement is the recording of Nature's answer.”
    ― Max Planck, Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers
    tags: nature, science
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    Johannes Kepler
    “Temporis filia veritas; cui me obstetricari non pudet.

    Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife.”
    ― Johannes Kepler
    tags: humor, progress, science, shame, time, truth
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    Arthur Stanley Eddington
    “An ocean traveler has even more vividly the impression that the ocean is made of waves than that it is made of water.”
    ― Arthur S. Eddington
    tags: cybernetics, science, systems
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    Humphry Davy
    “Nothing is so dangerous to the progress of the human mind than to assume that our views of science are ultimate, that there are no mysteries in nature, that our triumphs are complete and that there are no new worlds to conquer.”
    ― Humphry Davy
    tags: exploration, mind, science
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    J. Robert Oppenheimer
    “It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they are found because it was possible to find them.”
    ― J. Robert Oppenheimer
    tags: inspirational, motivational, necessary, possibility, profound, science, truth
    89 likes



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