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“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...'”

“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.”

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

“One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.”

“The world of science lives fairly comfortably with paradox. We know that light is a wave, and also that light is a particle. The discoveries made in the infinitely small world of particle physics indicate randomness and chance, and I do not find it any more difficult to live with the paradox of a universe of randomness and chance and a universe of pattern and purpose than I do with light as a wave and light as a particle. Living with contradiction is nothing new to the human being.”

“Curiosity has its own reason for existence.”

“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”

“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”

“All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.”

“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.”

“Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.”

“As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.”

“One cannot help but be in awe when [one] contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality.”