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"Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science."
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"You squeeze the eyedropper, and a drop of pond water drips out onto the microscope stage. You look at the projected image. The drop is full of life - strange beings swimming, crawling, tumbling; high dramas of pursuit and escape, triumph and tragedy. This is a world populated by beings far more exotic than in any science fiction movie..."

"What is salvation for humans? The answer is simple: Salvation is to perpetuate our existence via science!"

"Statistics, likelihoods, and probabilities mean everything to men, nothing to God."
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"Many a witty inspiration is like the surprising reunion of befriended thoughts after a long separation."

"One can only become a philosopher, but not be one. As one believes he is a philosopher, he stops being one."

"The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages."

"Many works of the ancients have become fragments. Many works of the moderns are fragments at the time of their origin."

"An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog."

"The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is an object of criticism and not of history."

"From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be."
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