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- I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale.
- Marie Curie (1867 - 1934)
- There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
- Marie Curie (1867 - 1934)
- No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.
- Jascha Heifetz (1901 - 1987)
- I'm seventeen and I'm crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane.
- Ray Bradbury (1920 - ), Fahrenheit 451, 1953
- Computer games don't affect kids, I mean if Pac Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive music.
- Marcus Brigstocke
- Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.
- Philip K. Dick (1928 - 1982), What the Dead Men Say, 1954
- Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane.
- Philip K. Dick (1928 - 1982), Valis
- At the present rate of progress, it is almost impossible to imagine any technical feat that cannot be achieved - if it can be achieved at all - within the next few hundred years.
- Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - ), 1983
- If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run - and often in the short one - the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative.
- Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - ), The Exploration of Space, 1951
- Being a woman is a terribly difficult task since it consists principally in dealing with men.
- Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924)
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