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“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 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.”

“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.”

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

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”

“Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world; he then tries to some extent to substitute this cosmos of his for the world of experience, and thus to overcome it. This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion. Each makes this cosmos and its construction the pivot of his emotional life, in order to find in this way peace and security which he can not find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience.”

“Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.”

“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.”