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"I've always been a fan of science fiction films, and I've never been able to put my particular spin on it."
"But the need for conflict to expose prejudice and unclear reasoning, which is deeply embedded in my philosophy of science, has its origin in these debates."
"Any idea of separation is bondage. True liberation of the mind is in non-differentiation. And in the pursuit of breaking free from all the shackles of such man-made bondages, science is the most effective tool we have till this date. But in order to bring out all its effectiveness into the human society, it must be sweetened first with the touch of philosophy. Science without Philosophy leads to chaos. Philosophy without Science leads to nowhere. Only together they can construct a better world."
"You frighten a lot of scientists. If they say that climate is not changing, they lose their research grants. And some people cannot afford that; they become silent, or a few of us speak up, because we think that it's for the honesty of science, that we have to do it."
"Science is bound, by the everlasting vow of honour, to face fearlessly every problem which can be fairly presented to it."
"As for sticking strictly to presently known science, I will simply point out that we have already experienced at least two major revolutions in science in this century alone."
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"There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age."
"The whole of the global economy is based on supplying the cravings of two per cent of the world's population."
"There are things you just can't do in life. You can't beat the phone company, you can't make a waiter see you until he's ready to see you, and you can't go home again."
"Boston's freeway system is insane. It was clearly designed by a person who had spent his childhood crashing toy trains."
"The remarkable position in which we find ourselves is that we don't actually know what we actually know."
"More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try to."
"When you tell an Iowan a joke, you can see a kind of race going on between his brain and his expression."
"I had always thought that once you grew up you could do anything you wanted - stay up all night or eat ice-cream straight out of the container."
"I have long known that it is part of God's plan for me to spend a little time with each of the most stupid people on earth."
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