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Quote by Tim Berners-Lee

“[The internet] ought to be like clay, rather than a sculpture that you observe from a distance.”

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Tim Berners-Lee, a renowned computer scientist, was born on June 8, 1955. He is credited with inventing the World Wide Web, which has had a profound impact on the development of the internet. more

“A discovery must be, by definition, at variance with existing knowledge. During my lifetime, I made two. Both were rejected offhand by the popes of the field. Had I predicted these discoveries in my applications, and had those authorities been my judges, it is evident what their decisions would have been.”

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Author:Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

“All of my life, I have been fascinated by the big questions that face us, and have tried to find scientific answers to them. If, like me, you have looked at the stars, and tried to make sense of what you see, you too have started to wonder what makes the universe exist.”

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Author:Stephen Hawking

“And now the announcement of Watson and Crick about DNA. This is for me the real proof of the existence of God.”

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Author:Salvador Dali

“And since the portions of the great and the small are equal in number, so too all things would be in everything. Nor is it possible that they should exist apart, but all things have a portion of everything.”

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Author:Anaxagoras

“Concerning the gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or that they do not exist, nor what sort of form they may have; there are many reasons why knowledge on this subject is not possible, owing to the lack of evidence and the shortness of human life.”

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Author:Protagoras

“Consciousness ... is the phenomenon whereby the universe's very existence is made known.”

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Book:The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics

Source: The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics

“It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.”

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Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Every improvement that is put upon the real estate is the result of an idea in somebody's head. The skyscraper is another idea; the railroad is another; the telephone and all those things are merely symbols which represent ideas. An andiron, a wash-tub, is the result of an idea that did not exist before.”

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Book:Mark Twain's Speeches

Source: Mark Twain's Speeches

“Human behaviour reveals uniformities which constitute natural laws. If these uniformities did not exist, then there would be neither social science nor political economy, and even the study of history would largely be useless. In effect, if the future actions of men having nothing in common with their past actions, our knowledge of them, although possibly satisfying our curiosity by way of an interesting story, would be entirely useless to us as a guide in life.”

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