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Goethe felt an urgent need to talk about his scientific studies. Exchange and dialogue were essential to discovery, he said.
“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
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“Physicists say we are made of stardust. Intergalactic debris and far-flung atoms, shards of carbon nanomatter rounded up by gravity to circle the sun. As atoms pass through an eternal revolving door of possible form, energy and mass dance in fluid relationship. We are stardust, we are man, we are thought. We are story.”
― The Geography of Love
― The Geography of Love
“The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.”
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“The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.”
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“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.”
― The World As I See It
― The World As I See It
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