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"It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it."
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"It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it."
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"That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer."
"We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do."
"The world is full of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show."
"Man is unique not because he does science, and his is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind."
"You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life."
"To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them."
"We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws."
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