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"My quest and passionate curiosity are the basis for my love for scientific adventure."
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"It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle."

"Intellectualism came very late to America. That's why Americans are so proud of it. I found very few real intellectuals in America. But there are so many pseudo-intellectuals."

"Futurism: This was a movement of intellectuals who wanted to replace tradition with the modern world of machinery, speed, violence, and public relations. It proves that we should be careful what intellectuals wish for, because we might get it."

"Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain."

"Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect."

"Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life-the life which has a seed of ennobling thought and purpose within it-can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing soul-wasting struggle with worldly annoyances."

"Be convinced that, if man were able to reach the end without preparatory studies, such studies would not be preparatory but tiresome and utterly superfluous."

"I obtain great satisfaction out of using my intellect."

"Through shallow intellect, the mind becomes shallow, and one eats the fly, along with the sweets."

"The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect."
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