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"Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor."
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"In our world," said Eustace, "a star is a huge ball of flaming gas."Even in your world, my son, that is not what a star is, but only what it is made of."
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"The universe rings true whenever you fairly test it."
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"The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking."
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"Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know."
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"The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions."
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"Time in itself, absolutely, does not exist; it is always relative to some observer or some object. Without a clock I say 'I do not know the time' . Without matter time itself is unknowable. Time is a function of matter; and matter therefore is the clock that makes infinity real."
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"I believe that science fiction is as profound as you want it to be or it can be very simple entertainment, and I'm all for very simple entertainment. Every now and then we all need to come home, veg-out, watch something and not think too deeply about it. It's what you want it to be. We tend to steer clear of being pedantic; it's entertainment first, otherwise we'd be on a lecture circuit."
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"Men of science offer us health, an obvious benefit; it is only afterwards that we discover that by health, they mean bodily slavery and spiritual tedium."
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"I don't think there's an interesting boundary between philosophy and science. Science is totally beholden to philosophy. There are philosophical assumptions in science and there's no way to get around that."
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"Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns."
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"An older author is constantly rediscovering himself in the more or less fossilized productions of his earlier years."
Writing
"Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them."
People
"A day's impact is better than a month of dead pull."
Success
"But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold."
Friendship
"A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend."
Society
"Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse."
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"Heredity is an omnibus in which all our ancestors ride and every now and then one of them puts his head out and embarrasses us."
Biology
"The secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered I was not God."
Humility
"The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one."
Duty
"Carve every word before you let it fall."
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