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Stanislaw Lec: When you jump...

Stanislaw Lec: When you jump...

When you jump for joy, beware that someone moves the ground from beneath your feet.

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Barbara Ward: We cannot cheat...

Barbara Ward: We cannot cheat...

We cannot cheat on DNA. We cannot get round photosynthesis. We cannot say I am not going to give a damn about...

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Isaac Asimov: [O]ur statesmen, our...

Isaac Asimov: [O]ur statesmen, our...

[O]ur statesmen, our businessmen, our everyman must take on a science fictional way of...

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Walter Gropius: Architects, painters, and...

Walter Gropius: Architects, painters, and...

Architects, painters, and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of a building both...

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Philip Johnson: Architects are pretty...

Philip Johnson: Architects are pretty...

Architects are pretty much high-class whores. We can turn down projects the way they can turn down some clients, but...

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Johannes Kepler: The diversity of...

Johannes Kepler: The diversity of...

The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in...

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Fred Hoyle: It seems to...

Fred Hoyle: It seems to...

It seems to be a characteristic of all great work that it creators wear a cloak of...

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Maria Mitchell: We especially need...

Maria Mitchell: We especially need...

We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and...

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Amelia Earhart: Women must pay...

Amelia Earhart: Women must pay...

Women must pay for everything. . . . They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, But, also, women get more...

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Amelia Earhart: Women must try...

Amelia Earhart: Women must try...

Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail their failure must be but a challenge to...

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Carl Linnaeus: Linnea.. . ....

Carl Linnaeus: Linnea.. . ....

Linnea.. . . A plant of Lapland, lowly, insignificant, disregarded, flowering but for a brief space -- from Linnaeus...

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Orlando A Battista: The fellow who...

Orlando A Battista: The fellow who...

The fellow who says he'll meet you halfway usually thinks he's standing on the dividing...

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Joseph Priestley: What I have...

Joseph Priestley: What I have...

What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of...

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Eugene Wigner: The Unreasonable Effectiveness...

Eugene Wigner: The Unreasonable Effectiveness...

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences

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Harold S Geneen: Facts from paper...

Harold S Geneen: Facts from paper...

Facts from paper are not the same as facts from people. The reliability of the people giving you the facts is as...

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Peter Medawar: Today the world...

Peter Medawar: Today the world...

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young...

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Rainer M Rilke: Fame is the...

Rainer M Rilke: Fame is the...

Fame is the sum of the misunderstanding that gathers about a new name.

Source: In...

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Charlotte Bronte: Life is so...

Charlotte Bronte: Life is so...

Life is so constructed that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.

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Sean O'Casey: You cannot put...

Sean O'Casey: You cannot put...

You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea; you cannot put an idea up against the barrack-square wall and riddle...

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Paul Verlaine: And everything else...

Paul Verlaine: And everything else...

And everything else is just literature

Source: [Et tout le reste est litt?rature];...

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