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"The fundamental point in fabricating a chain reacting machine is of course to see to it that each fission produces a certain number of neutrons and some of these neutrons will again produce fission."

"Once Miramax gets involved, if they like your movie, there's a big machine that gets involved."

"In many biological structures proteins are simply components of larger molecular machines."

"Among all the machines, motorcar is my favorite machine."

"When man wanted to make a machine that would walk he created the wheel, which does not resemble a leg."

"Yes, I remember the barbed wire and the guard towers and the machine guns, but they became part of my normal landscape. What would be abnormal in normal times became my normality in camp."

"Our bodies are machines and have to be functional, and to do that they have to be fed properly."

"I've always worked on the machines, especially the 125 and 250 which are really difficult to set up."
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"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."

"If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living."

"Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house."

"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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