"Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it."

J. Robert Oppenheimer, American Physicist

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"Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not."

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"In our world," said Eustace, "a star is a huge ball of flaming gas."Even in your world, my son, that is not what a star is, but only what it is made of."

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"The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking."

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"Psychology is more concerned with identifying the degree of mental disorder and less with its cure!"

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"A drop of water is not immortal; it can be resolved into oxygen and hydrogen. If, therefore, a drop of water were to maintain that it had a quality of aqueousness which would survive its dissolution we should be inclined to be skeptical. In like manner we know that the brain is not immortal..."

Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher

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"Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know."

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"Scientists have an expression for hypotheses that are utterly useless even for learning from mistakes. They refer to them as being "not even wrong." Most so-called spiritual discourse is of this type."

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"The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions."

John Ruskin, English Writer

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"Human psychology is the most mysterious thing in the world."

"Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not."

"In our world," said Eustace, "a star is a huge ball of flaming gas."Even in your world, my son, that is not what a star is, but only what it is made of."

"The universe rings true whenever you fairly test it."

"The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking."

"Psychology is more concerned with identifying the degree of mental disorder and less with its cure!"

"A drop of water is not immortal; it can be resolved into oxygen and hydrogen. If, therefore, a drop of water were to maintain that it had a quality of aqueousness which would survive its dissolution we should be inclined to be skeptical. In like manner we know that the brain is not immortal..."

"Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know."

"Scientists have an expression for hypotheses that are utterly useless even for learning from mistakes. They refer to them as being "not even wrong." Most so-called spiritual discourse is of this type."

"The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions."

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"In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose."

"Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries."

"No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows."

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"There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago."

"The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country."

"Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it."