"Science goes from question to question; big questions, and little, tentative answers. The questions as they age grow ever broader, the answers are seen to be more limited."

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"Science goes from question to question; big questions, and little, tentative answers. The questions as they age grow ever broader, the answers are seen to be more limited."

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"You can only be twice someone's age once."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

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"Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"It doesn't matter how old you are.It does matter how much you care."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age."

George Santayana, American Philosopher

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"Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans: and, instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas."

Eric Bentley, English Critic

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"It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again."

William James, American Philosopher

Age, Character, Will, World

"Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both."

Joseph Addison, English Writer

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"People who boast about age are actually forgetting something special. Age is not barrier to or elevator to success that's the job of vision."

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

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"In choosing a hypothesis there is no virtue in being timid. I clearly would have been burned at the stake in another age."

Thomas Gold, Austrian Scientist

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"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?"

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"The Vietnamese have a secret weapon. It's their willingness to die beyond our willingness to kill. In effect, they've been saying, You can kill us, but you'll have to kill a lot of us; you may have to kill all of us. And, thank heaven, we are not yet ready to do that."

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"In fact, death seems to have been a rather late invention in evolution. One can go a long way in evolution before encountering an authentic corpse."

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"A scientist is in a sense a learned small boy. There is something of the scientist in every small boy. Others must outgrow it. Scientists can stay that way all their lives."

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"A peacetime draft is the most un-American thing I know."

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"As you lecture, you keep watching the faces, and information keeps coming back to you all the time."

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"You can only be twice someone's age once."

"There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity."

"Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth."

"It doesn't matter how old you are.It does matter how much you care."

"The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age."

"Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans: and, instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas."

"It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again."

"Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both."

"People who boast about age are actually forgetting something special. Age is not barrier to or elevator to success that's the job of vision."

"In choosing a hypothesis there is no virtue in being timid. I clearly would have been burned at the stake in another age."

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"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?"

"Since we have had a history, men have pursued an ideal of immortality."

"A scientist lives with all reality. There is nothing better."

"The concept of war crimes is an American invention."

"Dropping those atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a war crime."

"The Vietnamese have a secret weapon. It's their willingness to die beyond our willingness to kill. In effect, they've been saying, You can kill us, but you'll have to kill a lot of us; you may have to kill all of us. And, thank heaven, we are not yet ready to do that."

"In fact, death seems to have been a rather late invention in evolution. One can go a long way in evolution before encountering an authentic corpse."

"A scientist is in a sense a learned small boy. There is something of the scientist in every small boy. Others must outgrow it. Scientists can stay that way all their lives."

"A peacetime draft is the most un-American thing I know."

"As you lecture, you keep watching the faces, and information keeps coming back to you all the time."