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“With a metric you can really go to town, otherwise it is just abstract nonsense.”

Science Towns Mathematics Abstract Nonsense Metrics

Author:Jennifer Tour Chayes

“Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And hain't that a big enough majority in any town?”

Enough Humor Bigs Funny Science Sides Fool Towns Majority Fools And Foolishness Huckleberry

Author:Mark Twain

“Scientists like myself merely use their gifts to show up that which already exists, and we look small compared to the artists who create works of beauty out of themselves. If a good fairy came and offered me back my youth, asking me which gifts I would rather have, those to make visible a thing which exists but which no man has ever seen before, or the genius needed to create, in a style of architecture never imagined before, the great Town Hall in which we are dining tonight, I might be tempted to choose the latter.”

Ifs Men Looks Use Shows Might Science Artist Existence Style Youth Genius Needed Scientist Towns Asking Architecture Temptation Visible Fairy Latter Tonight Halls Tempted Dining

Author:Max Perutz

“A man who has once looked with the archaeological eye will never see quite normally. He will be wounded by what other men call trifles. It is possible to refine the sense of time until an old shoe in the bunch grass or a pile of nineteenth century beer bottles in an abandoned mining town tolls in one's head like a hall clock.”

Men Eye Science Century Towns Shoes Bunch Beer Clock Grass Halls Bottles Abandoned Wounded Trifles Nineteenth Century Tolls Mining Old Shoes

Book:The Night Country: A Library of America eBook Classic

Source: The Night Country: A Library of America eBook Classic

“Why should one say that the machine does not live? It breathes, for its breath forms the atmosphere of some towns.”

Life Should Doe Form Science Machines Towns Breaths Breathe Atmosphere

Book:Coningsby, etc

Source: Coningsby, etc

“[Locating, from scratch, the gene related to a disease is like] trying to find a burned-out light bulb in a house located somewhere between the East and West coasts without knowing the state, much less the town or street the house is on.”

Trying States Light Science House Knowing Streets Disease Research Towns West East Related Genes Burned Coast Scratches Bulbs West Coast Light Bulb East And West Burned Out

Author:Francis Collins

“Geology ... offers always some material for observation. ... [When] spring and summer come round, how easily may the hammer be buckled round the waist, and the student emerge from the dust of town into the joyous air of the country, for a few delightful hours among the rocks.”

May Country Science Hours Air Rocks Students Materials Offers Summer Spring Towns Rounds Observation Dust Ease Delightful Hammers Joyous Geology

Author:Archibald Geikie

“[At high school in Cape Town] my interests outside my academic work were debating, tennis, and to a lesser extent, acting. I became intensely interested in astronomy and devoured the popular works of astronomers such as Sir Arthur Eddington and Sir James Jeans, from which I learnt that a knowledge of mathematics and physics was essential to the pursuit of astronomy. This increased my fondness for those subjects.”

“The disease and its medicine are like two factions in a besieged town; they tear one another to pieces, but both unite against their common enemy, Nature.”

Two Science Nature Common Enemy Pieces Tears Disease Towns Medicine Unity Factions Common Enemy

Author:Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey

“Today every city, town, or village is affected by it. We have entered the Neon Civilization and become a plastic world.. It goes deeper than its visual manifestations, it affects moral matters; we are engaged, as astrophysicists would say, on a decaying orbit.”

World Matter Today Science Cities Moral Civilization Towns Deeper Manifestation Engaged Visuals Affected Village Plastic Orbit Neon

Author:Raymond Loewy