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Quote by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Science is an ocean. It is as open to the cockboat as the frigate. One man carries across it a freightage of ingots, another may fish there for herrings.”

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Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

British novelist known for his historical novels and Gothic tales, famous for works such as 'Peveril of the Peak' and 'Evelyn Hope'. more

“Though the theories of plate tectonics now provide us with a modus operandi, they still seem to me to be a periodic phenomenon. Nothing is world-wide, but everything is episodic. In other words, the history of anyone part of the earth, like the life of a soldier, consists of long periods of boredom and short periods of terror.”

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Author:D. V. Ager

“Indeed, while Nature is wonderfully inventive of new structures, her conservatism in holding on to old ones is still more remarkable. In the ascending line of development she tries an experiment once exceedingly thorough, and then the question is solved for all time. For she always takes time enough to try the experiment exhaustively. It took ages to find how to build a spinal column or brain, but when the experiment was finished she had reason to be, and was, satisfied.”

“Great discoveries are made accidentally less often than the populace likes to think. Commenting on how an accident led to the discovery of X-rays.”

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Author:William Cecil Dampier

“A good mathematical joke is better, and better mathematics, than a dozen mediocre papers.”

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Book:Littlewood's Miscellany

Source: Littlewood's Miscellany

“Mathematics is a dangerous profession; an appreciable proportion of us go mad.”

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Book:Littlewood's Miscellany

Source: Littlewood's Miscellany

“The best way out is always through.”

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Author:Robert Frost

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