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"That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer."
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"To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat."

"If you ask me a question, don't tell me what the question is in advance, 'cause I'd rather not know."

"Still the question remains of what actually speaks in a poem, if not subjectivity as historically constructed."

"Historically, I believe I was correct in refusing to answer their questions."

"And the sculptor woman was so clever in the way she did it. She had the beret just about to leave my hand. So it's attached to this finger and that's what will keep it there. And I'm looking up at it, so there's no question but that that beret is going to fly."

"I'm different, and my manner invites questions. I'm never afraid to answer."
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"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."

"The world is made up of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show."

"The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men."

"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."

"It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it."

"Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime."

"Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved."
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