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"Absolute space, that is to say, the mark to which it would be necessary to refer the earth to know whether it really moves, has no objective existence."
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"We were on the dark side of the Earth when we started to see outside the window this soft pink glow, which is a lot of little angry ions out there going very fast. We were hitting them very fast."
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"We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap."
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"There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person."
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"It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth."
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"When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it."
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"He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?"
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"Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual)."
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"Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere."
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"It's only when you're flying above it that you realize how incredible the Earth really is."
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"Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair."
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"What is it indeed that gives us the feeling of elegance in a solution, in a demonstration?"
Elegance
"In the old days when people invented a new function they had something useful in mind."
People
"A small error in the former will produce an enormous error in the latter."
Error
"It has adopted the geometry most advantageous to the species or, in other words, the most convenient."
Geometry
"If that enabled us to predict the succeeding situation with the same approximation, that is all we require, and we should say that the phenomenon had been predicted, that it is governed by the laws."
Law
"Absolute space, that is to say, the mark to which it would be necessary to refer the earth to know whether it really moves, has no objective existence."
Earth
"If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living."
Life
"One would have to have completely forgotten the history of science so as to not remember that the desire to know nature has had the most constant and the happiest influence on the development of mathematics."
History
"The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so."
Experience
"If we knew exactly the laws of nature and the situation of the universe at the initial moment, we could predict exactly the situation of the same universe at a succeeding moment."
Nature
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