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“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.”

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Author:R. Buckminster Fuller
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“In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.”

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Author:Galileo Galilei
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“Following Korzybski, I put things in probabilities, not absolutes... My only originality lies in applying this zetetic attitude outside the hardest of the hard sciences, physics, to softer sciences and then to non-sciences like politics, ideology, jury verdicts and, of course, conspiracy theory.”

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

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

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Author:William Lawrence Bragg
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“Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.”

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Book:The Nature of Science: And Other Lectures
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“In science it often happens that scientists say, "You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken..."”

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

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Author:Thomas Huxley
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“The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”

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Author:Isaac Newton
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“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.”

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Author:Isaac Newton
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“A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.”

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Author:Max Planck
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“An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.”

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Author:Niels Bohr
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“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.”

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Author:Carl Sagan
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“You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.”

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Author:Dale Carnegie
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“I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.”

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Book:The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman
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“Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing.”

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Author:Wernher von Braun
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“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.”

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Book:The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History
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“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use.”

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Author:Galileo Galilei
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“It was absolutely marvelous working for Pauli. You could ask him anything. There was no worry that he would think a particular question was stupid, since he thought all questions were stupid.”

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Book:Physics and Society: Essays in Honor of Victor Frederick Weisskopf by the International Community of Physicists
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