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"Every animal leaves traces of what it was; man alone leaves traces of what he created."
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"Man is unique not because he does science, and his is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind."
Art
"It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it."
Irreverence
"That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer."
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"The hand is the cutting edge of the mind."
Mind
"Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty."
Knowledge
"We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws."
Nature
"Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved."
Science
"You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life."
Life
"The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself."
Science
"The world is full of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show."
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"No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so."
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"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them."
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"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others."
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"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."
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"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."
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"Genius: the superhuman in man."
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"Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago."
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"Men exist for the sake of one another."
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"One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best."
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"I will praise any man that will praise me."
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