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“When the conventional wisdom of physics seemed to conflict with an elegant theory of his, Einstein was inclined to question that wisdom rather than his theory, often to have his stubbornness rewarded.”
“Science is a hammer for change.”
“I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that.”
“The meaning of world is the separation of wish and fact.”
“Politics is for the moment and equation is for eternity.”
“When you think about it, the Big Bang's a big like school, isn't ”
“In all, 86 per cent of the increased life expectancy was due to decreases in infectious diseases. And the bulk of the decline in infectious disease deaths occurred prior to the age of antibiotics. ...”
“Nothing is as engaged as a retentive human brain as uncounted events is inhibited in it”
“Nothing makes a woman beauty than her belief that she is beauty.”
“God promises neither good life nor good health but live your life the way it is planned by you and fate.”
“Science asymptotically approaches reality.”
“According to inflation, the more than 100 billion galaxies, sparkling throughout space like heavenly diamonds, are nothing but quantum mechanics writ large across the sky. To me, this realization i...”
“In the mind of an ordinary, 1+1 = 2; but, in the mind of an extraordinary, 1+ 1 = 10.”
“In the discovery of secret things, and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated arguments than from probable conjectures and the o...”
“For once reality and his brains came into contact and the result was fatal.”
“Science, its imperfections notwithstanding, is the sword in the stone that humanity finally pulled. The question it poses, of universal and orderly materialism, is the most important that can be as...”
“The task of evolutionary psychology is not to weigh in on human nature, a task better left to others. It is to add the satisfying kind of insight that only science can provide: to connect what we k...”
“The crime which is done now is that war has made a tool and slave of science, and man's knowledge, painfully and laboriously compiled, is made the instrument of man's destruction.”
“A scientist shouldn't be asked to judge the economic and moral value of his work. All we should ask the scientist to do is find the truth and then not keep it from anyone.”
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a completely ad hoc plot device.”
