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[Mystery] is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.

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The Dark Ages may return-the Stone Age may return on the gleaming wings of Science; and what might now shower immeasureable material blessings upon mankind may even bring about its total destruction. Beware! I say. Time may be short. Referring to the discovery of atomic energy.

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I like the scientific spirit-the holding off, the being sure but not too sure, the willingness to surrender ideas when the evidence is against them: this is ultimately fine-it always keeps the way beyond open.

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I was a reasonably good student in college ... My chief interests were scientific. When I entered college, I was devoted to out-of-doors natural history, and my ambition was to be a scientific man of the Audubon, or Wilson, or Baird, or Coues type-a man like Hart Merriam, or Frank Chapman, or Hornaday, to-day.

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A common man marvels at uncommon things. A wise man marvels at the commonplace.

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Medicine has made all its progress during the past fifty years. ... How many operations that are now in use were known fifty years ago?-they were not operations, they were executions.

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It is madness and a contradiction to expect that things which were never yet performed should be effected, except by means hitherto untried.

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The only hope [of science] ... is in genuine induction.

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Science is the century-old endeavor to bring together by means of systematic thought the perceptible phenomena of this world into as thorough-going an association as possible.

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Line in Nature is not found; Unit and Universe are round.

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IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.

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If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag.

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I believe my theory of relativity to be true. But it will only be proved for certain in 1981, when I am dead.

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ETHNOLOGY, n. The science that treats of the various tribes of Man, as robbers, thieves, swindlers, dunces, lunatics, idiots and ethnologists.

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In a lot of scientists, the ratio of wonder to skepticism declines in time. That may be connected with the fact that in some fields-mathematics, physics, some others-the great discoveries are almost entirely made by youngsters.

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An organized product of nature is that in which all the parts are mutually ends and means.

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Therefore the moon, the governess of floods, Pale in her anger washes all the air, That rheumatic diseases do abound; And through this distemperature we see The seasons alter: hoary-headed frosts Fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose.

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The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men.

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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.

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We can invent as many theories we like, and any one of them can be made to fit the facts. But that theory is always preferred which makes the fewest number of assumptions.

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