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"Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature."
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"If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non-working cat."

"The disruption of science is one which abandons the method and seeks to conquer grounds outside its territory. It is not at all religion but this pseudo-science that is the enemy of science."

"Mathematics possesses not only truth but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere like that of a sculpture."

"Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way affected by every other piece of matter in the Universe, it is in theory possible to extrapolate the whole of creation - every sun, every planet, their orbits, their composition and their economic and social history from, say, one small piece of fairy cake."

"Neuroanatomy, political history, and introspection all offer evidence that human beings are quite capable of resisting the urge to surrender to every impulse of reptilian core of brain."
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"Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature."

"War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other."

"Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to."

"Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh."

"The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds."
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