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"Every word or concept, clear as it may seem to be, has only a limited range of applicability."
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"When they discover I have a green card there may be some problems."

"You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come."

"New Yorkers may think they're on some cutting edge, but that's not especially true. It is, however, the most exciting heterogeneous mess of a town I've ever seen."
May,

"I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone."

"Inhabit ourselves that we may indeed do what we want to do."

"It may not be possible to get rare roast beef but if you're willing to settle for well done, ask them to hold the sweetened library paste that passes for gravy."
May,

"No matter how small and unimportant what we are doing may seem, if we do it well, it may soon become the step that will lead us to better things."
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"Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves."


"The problems of language here are really serious. We wish to speak in some way about the structure of the atoms. But we cannot speak about atoms in ordinary language."


"The solution of the difficulty is that the two mental pictures which experiment lead us to form - the one of the particles, the other of the waves - are both incomplete and have only the validity of analogies which are accurate only in limiting cases."


"The violent reaction on the recent development of modern physics can only be understood when one realises that here the foundations of physics have started moving; and that this motion has caused the feeling that the ground would be cut from science."
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