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“The universe, as we see it, is the result of regularly working forces, having a causal connection with each other and therefore capable of being understood by human reason.”

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Book:Force and Matter: Or, Principles of the Natural Order of the Universe. With a System of Morality Based Thereon

Source: Force and Matter: Or, Principles of the Natural Order of the Universe. With a System of Morality Based Thereon

“One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.”

“In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.”

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Author:Thomas Huxley

“Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.”

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Author:Joseph Joubert

“Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.”

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Author:Russell Baker

“That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time.”

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Book:The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill

Source: The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill

“My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.”

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Author:Tom Stoppard

“There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up.”

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Author:Rex Stout

“We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.”

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Author:Wernher von Braun

“If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut”

“Seven Deadly Sins Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice.”

“You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for our own improvement, and at the same time share a genaral responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think can be most useful.”

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Author:Marie Curie

“One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.”

“Whenever you look at a piece of work and you think the fellow was crazy, then you want to pay some attention to that. One of you is likely to be, and you had better find out which one it is. It makes an awful lot of difference.”

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Author:Charles Kettering

“The mathematical life of a mathematician is short. Work rarely improves after the age of twenty-five or thirty. If little has been accomplished by then, little will ever be accomplished.”

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Author:Alfred Adler

“We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had the wrong idea first, and so on. So there isn't any place to publish, in a dignified manner, what you actually did in order to get to do the work, although, there has been in these days, some interest in this kind of thing.”

“One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it”

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Author:David Hilbert