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"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not."
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"Human psychology is the most mysterious thing in the world."
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"The Man in the Moon is in fact a record of ancient catastrophes--most of which took place before humans, before mammals, and probably even before life arose on Earth. It is a characteristic conceit of our species to put a human face on random cosmic violence."
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"Is it not curious, that so vast a being as the whale should see the world through so small an eye, and hear the thunder through an ear which is smaller than a hare's? But if his eyes were broad as the lens of Herschel's great telescope; and his ears capacious as the porches of cathedrals; would that make him any longer of sight, or sharper of hearing? Not at all.-Why then do you try to 'enlarge' your mind? Subtilize it."
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"In scientific thinking are always present elements of poetry. Science and music requires a thought homogeneous."
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"I have detected disturbances in the wash.''The wash?''The space-time wash.''Are we talking about some sort of Vogon laundromat, or what are we talking about?''Eddies in the space-time continuum.''Ah...is he. Is he.''What?''Er, who is Eddy, then, exactly?"
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"Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature."
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"One glance and I knew exactly who and what he was. The classic alpha male, the kind who had spurred evolution forward about five million years ago by nailing every female in sight. They charmed, seduced, and behaved like bastards, and yet women were biologically incapable of resisting their magic DNA."
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"Most of the psychological differences between men and women seem to come from differences in their reproductive system."
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"In its encounter with Nature, science invariably elicits a sense of reverence and awe. The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos. And the cumulative worldwide build-up of knowledge over time converts science into something only a little short of a trans-national, trans-generational meta-mind."
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"Science is a field which grows continuously with ever expanding frontiers."
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"In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in, everybody."
Peace
"There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing."
Doubt
"This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition."
History
"In France one must adapt oneself to the fragrance of a urinal."
Environment
"Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers' granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages."
Time
"It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business."
Business
"It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken."
Mistake
"Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood."
People
"Do not forget birthdays. This is in no way a propaganda for a larger population."
Advice
"I've been rich and I've been poor. It's better to be rich."
Poor
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