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"At the end of all spiritual paths, there lies only a cold graveyard; the path of science is the only path that may give you something better than this!"

"It is a strange fact, incidentally, that religious apologists love the anthropic principle. For some reason that makes no sense at all, they think it supports their case. Precisely the opposite is true. The anthropic principle, like natural selection, is an alternative to the design hypothesis. It provides a rational, design-free explanation for the fact that we find ourselves in a situation propitious to our existence."

"Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact."

"It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics."

"Darwin gives courage to the rest of science that we shall end up understanding literally everything, springing from almost nothing - a thought extremely hard to comprehend and believe."

"If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non-working cat."
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"I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries."

"There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth."

"I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy."

"I have no dress except the one I wear every day. If you are going to be kind enough to give me one, please let it be practical and dark so that I can put it on afterwards to go to the laboratory."

"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less."

"Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained."

"After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it."
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