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“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”

“When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.”

“In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.”

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”

“The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'”

“In my view, The Temple of Man is the most important work of scholarship of this century. R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz finally proves the existence of the legendary 'sacred science' of the Ancients and systematically demonstrates its modus operandi. It was this great science-based upon an intimate and exact knowledge of cosmic principles-that fused art, religion, science, and philosophy into one coherent whole and sustained Ancient Egypt for three thousand years.”

“The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.”

“Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.”

“In science it often happens that scientists say, "You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken..."”

“The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.”

“The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”

“My innovation message, specifically including energy, happened to be the same week that on Monday and Tuesday I announced the Breakthrough Energy Venture Group. Then on that Tuesday afternoon, in December, was when I sat down with him. I explained the US has great science here, this is where the market for these things is going to be. It connects to less pollution, it connects to U.S. jobs, it connects to security, not needing the energy coming from far away.”

“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.”

“If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.”

“I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”

“Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.”

“In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.”

“Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing.”

“He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.”

“Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.”

“My mother made me a scientist without ever intending to. Every other Jewish mother in Brooklyn would ask her child after school, So? Did you learn anything today? But not my mother. Izzy, she would say, did you ask a good question today? That difference - asking good questions - made me become a scientist.”