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- Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls this adventure Science.
- Edward Powell Hubble, The Nature of Science, 1954
- If there is technological advance without social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery.
- Michael Harrington, The Other America, 1962
- My publisher told me that the number of readers of this book will be inversely proportional to the number of equations it contains.
- Stephen Hawking (1942 - ), A Brief History of Time, 1988
- The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.
- Ernest Renan, Recollections of My Youth, 1883
- That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on your way to the pertinent answer.
- Jacob Bronowski, The Ascent of Man, 1973
- People are governed by the head; a kind heart is of little value in chess.
- Nicholas Chamfort (1741 - 1794)
- Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in the world.
- Cesare Pavese (1908 - 1950)
- There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
- William James (1842 - 1910)
- Our notion of symmetry is derived from the human face. Hence, we demand symmetry horizontally and in breath only, not vertically nor in depth.
- Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)
- Solemnity is a device of the body to hide the faults of the mind.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
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