"I certainly saw science as a kind of calling, and one with as much legitimacy as a religious calling."

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"I certainly saw science as a kind of calling, and one with as much legitimacy as a religious calling."

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"It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature."

Albert Einstein, German Scientist

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"Alas! It seems to me that when one is as good as this at dissecting children who are to born, one can't stiffen up enough to create them."

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

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"The total amount of energy from outside the solar system ever received by all the radio telescopes on the planet Earth is less than the energy of a single snowflake striking the ground."

Carl Sagan, American Scientist

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"Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know."

Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher

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"What we must understand is that the industries, processes, and inventions created by modern science can be used either to subjugate or liberate. The choice is up to us."

Henry A. Wallace, American Vice President

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"What Galileo and Newton were to the seventeenth century, Darwin was to the nineteenth."

Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher

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"We are well on our way to a unified theory of biology that will merge body and environment, brain and mind, genome and microbiome."

Deepak Chopra, American Philosopher

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"Learn about the world, the way it works, any kind of science and anthropology, it's really an interesting place we live in. Evolution is a really fantastic idea, even more than the idea of God I think."

Randy Newman, American Comedian

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"Every discovery in pure science is potentially subversive, even science must sometimes be treated as a possible enemy."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

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"Science can make a heart beat with ventilator, but there is only one power that makes it live, that is LOVE which is the purest form of FAITH."

Vikrmn, Indian Author

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"By the time I was 12 or 13, I was studying biochemistry textbooks."

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"I certainly saw science as a kind of calling, and one with as much legitimacy as a religious calling."

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"If it takes you 20 or 25 years to establish yourself in one field, you really ought to be careful not to stray too far."

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"I wish I had a talent for dropping things as well as taking on new ones. It gets to be quite a clutter after a while."

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"I did get a very fine education, and not just in science. It took some pressure on the part of my elders to convince me that I really should take an interest in humanities."

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"I hope I've lived a life of science whose style will encourage younger people."

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"I was making a lot of momentous personal decisions. I was still very very young: when the prize was awarded, I was 33; the work I had done when I was 21."

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"If lifespan jumps by 30 or 40 years, that has enormous implications."

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"Being successful at a very young age gave me the confidence and the capability to try out other things."

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"So many of the things I've predicted were technologies that were just sitting right in front of us."

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