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“The progress of the human race in understanding the universe has established a small corner of order in an increasingly disordered universe.”

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Stephen Hawking

Stephen Hawking was a renowned British theoretical physicist known for his contributions to the fields of black hole theory and cosmology. Born on January 8, 1942, he overcame the challenges of ALS to become a global icon of science and perseverance. more

“This required abandoning the idea that there is a universal quantity called time that all clocks measure. Instead, everyone would have his own personal time. The clocks of two people would agree if they were at rest with respect to each other but not if they were moving. This has been confirmed by a number of experiments, including one in which an extremely accurate timepiece was flown around the world and then compared with one that had stayed in place. If you wanted to live longer, you could keep flying to the east so the speed of the plane added to the earth”

“Worms have played a more important part in the history of the world than humans would at first suppose.”

World Firsts Humans Important Worms World History

Author:Charles Darwin

“Nature will tell you a direct lie if she can.”

Ifs Lying Nature Direct

Author:Charles Darwin

“A practical botanist will distinguish at the first glance the plant of the different quarters of the globe and yet will be at a loss to tell by what marks he detects them.”

Firsts Different Loss Mark Plant Practicals Quarters Globes Glances

Author:Carl Linnaeus

“Great grief makes sacred those upon whom its hand is laid. Joy may elevate, ambition glorify, but sorrow alone can consecrate.”

May Hands Joy Grief Sorrow Ambition Sacred Glorify

Author:Horace Greeley

“The Republic needed to be passed through chastening, purifying fires of adversity and suffering: so these came and did their work and the verdure of a new national life springs greenly, luxuriantly, from their ashes.”

Suffering Fire Needed Spring Adversity Republic Ashes Purifying Purifying Fire

Author:Horace Greeley

“Calumny is only the noise of madmen.”

Noise Madmen Calumny Calumny Is

Author:Diogenes

“Entrance into Heaven is not at the hour of death, but at the moment of conversion.”

Moments Heaven Hours Conversion Entrances

Book:The works of ... Benjamin Whichcote

Source: The works of ... Benjamin Whichcote

“There is nothing more unnatural to religion than contentions about it.”

Religion Unnatural Contention

Book:Moral and religious aphorisms collected from the manuscript papers of the reverend and learned Doctor Whichcote; and published in 1703, by Dr. Jeffery. Now re-published, with very large additions, ... by Samuel Salter, ... To which are added, Eight letter

Source: Moral and religious aphorisms collected from the manuscript papers of the reverend and learned Doctor Whichcote; and published in 1703, by Dr. Jeffery. Now re-published, with very large additions, ... by Samuel Salter, ... To which are added, Eight letter

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