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The scientist finds his reward in what Henri Poincare calls the joy of comprehension, and not in the possibility of application to which any discovery may lead.

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Nature, when left to universal laws, tends to produce regularity out of chaos.

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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.

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As true as steel, as plantage to the moon, As sun to day, at turtle to her mate, As iron to adamant, as earth to centre.

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But poverty, though it does not prevent the generation, is extremely unfavourable to the rearing of children. The tender plant is produced, but in so cold a soil, and so severe a climate, soon withers and dies.

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A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.

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A thought, even a possibility, can shatter and transform us.

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Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.

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Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

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Non-violence ... is the only thing that the atom bomb cannot destroy.

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The human heart concerns us more than the poring into microscopes, and is larger than can be measured by the pompous figures of the astronomer.

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All Science is necessarily prophetic, so truly so, that the power of prophecy is the test, the infallible criterion, by which any presumed Science is ascertained to be actually & verily science. The Ptolemaic Astronomy was barely able to prognosticate a lunar eclipse; with Kepler and Newton came Science and Prophecy.

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Science is always simple and always profound. It is only the half-truths that are dangerous.

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Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to support or prop up their beliefs. Yet has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science? ... No other human institution comes close.

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We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry and lifeless science, or sink into that of sensation. Between these extremes is the equator of life, of thought, or spirit, or poetry,--a narrow belt.

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If I would be a young man again and had to decide how to make my living, I would not try to become a scientist or scholar or teacher. I would rather choose to be a plumber or a peddler in hope to find that modest degree of independence still available under present circumstances.

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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.

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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind... The understanding can intuit nothing, the senses can think nothing. Only through their union can knowledge arise.

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Everything in nature is bipolar, or has a positive and a negative pole.

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In science it often happens that scientists say, "You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken..."

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