#science

In the face of the impossible … they submit themselves at once. The impossible – meaning the stone wall? Which stone wall? Well,...

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May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.

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Science enables us to realize our purposes, and if our purposes are evil, the result is disaster.

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Without noticing we’re doing it, we treat the future as intrinsically more valuable than the present. And yet the future

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If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.

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Success isn’t a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

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Doctors must be psychologically fit for the job — able to make decisions under a terrifying amount of pressure, able to

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Dieting becomes ineffective without sleep: 60% of the pounds you will lose come from lean body mass (such as muscle), and

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[video: the beginning of Birdhouse In Your Soul.

There is no ‘a priori’ reason for supposing that the truth, when it is discovered, will necessarily prove interesting.

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Truth is eternal, knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them.

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The whole history of modern poetry is a running commentary on the following brief philosophical text: all art should

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Mathematics is often erroneously referred to as the science of common sense. Actually, it may transcend common sense and

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The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore.

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Every day things happen in the world that can’t be explained by any law of things we know. Every day they’re mentioned

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A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

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If a solution fails to appear … and yet we feel success is just around the corner, try resting for a while. … Like the

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Philosophy becomes poetry and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius.

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‘Facts, facts, facts,’ cries the scientist if he wants to emphasize the necessity of a firm foundation for science. What is

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You can’t ever reach perfection, but you can believe in an asymptote toward which you are ceaselessly striving.

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Everyone acknowledges that there are vast amounts we do not know, and that enormous opportunities for progress in

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