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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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"Just before she died she asked, What is the answer? No answer came. She laughed and said, In that case, what is the question? Then she died."
"A series of disconcerting questions nibbles at hearts of troubled youths. These same unanswered questions, along with their acerbic toxins, reveal their pungent fumes more frequently and with greater intensity as a person rushes headfirst into life's concrete jungle."
"I tell my students to try to know molecules, so well that when they have some question involving molecules, they can ask themselves, What would I do if I were that molecule?"
"That's a difficult question, because to consider yourself a rebel is sort of ridiculous."
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"Non-technical questions sometimes don't have an answer at all."
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"Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature."
"The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men."
"The world is full of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show."
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