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    Nikola Tesla
    “The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.”
    ― Nikola Tesla
    tags: future, present
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    James Clerk Maxwell
    “Thoroughly conscious ignorance is the prelude to every real advance in science.”
    ― James Clerk Maxwell
    tags: ignorance, science
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    James Clerk Maxwell
    “Almighty God, Who hast created man in Thine own image, and made him a living soul that he might seek after Thee, and have dominion over Thy creatures, teach us to study the works of Thy hands, that we may subdue the earth to our use, and strengthen the reason for Thy service;”
    ― James Clerk Maxwell
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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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    Niels Bohr
    “An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.”
    ― Niels Bohr
    tags: science
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    Albert Einstein
    “Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: einstein, paraphrased, science, systems
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    Neil deGrasse Tyson
    “The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.”
    ― Neil deGrasse Tyson
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    Isaac Newton
    “If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.”
    ― Isaac Newton, The Correspondence of Isaac Newton: Volume 5, 1709–1713
    tags: principia, science
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    Richard P. Feynman
    “Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.”
    ― Richard P. Feynman
    tags: science, sex
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    Albert Einstein
    “Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: education, knowledge-wisdom, learning, school, science, wisdom
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    Albert Einstein
    “God does not play dice with the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein, The Born-Einstein Letters 1916-55
    tags: quantum-physics, science
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control. Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals.”
    ― Martin Luther King, Jr
    tags: religion, science
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    Albert Einstein
    “The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: einstein, philosophy, science
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    Richard P. Feynman
    “The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.”
    ― Richard P. Feynman
    tags: science
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    Richard P. Feynman
    “I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.”
    ― Richard P. Feynman
    tags: science
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    Albert Einstein
    “Student: Dr. Einstein, Aren't these the same questions as last year's [physics] final exam?

    Dr. Einstein: Yes; But this year the answers are different.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: humor, science
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    Nikola Tesla
    “The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.”
    ― Nikola Tesla
    tags: invention, non-physical-phenomena, progress, science
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    Isaac Newton
    “I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”
    ― Isaac Newton
    tags: science, truth
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    Richard P. Feynman
    “Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.”
    ― Richard P. Feynman
    tags: doubt, science, science-vs-religion
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    Richard P. Feynman
    “I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.”
    ― Richard Feynman
    tags: answers, questions, science
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    Neil deGrasse Tyson
    “There’s as many atoms in a single molecule of your DNA as there are stars in the typical galaxy. We are, each of us, a little universe.”
    ― Neil deGrasse Tyson, Cosmos
    tags: galaxies, science, stars, universe
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    Thomas A. Edison
    “To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.”
    ― Thomas A. Edison
    tags: invention, science
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    Galileo Galilei
    “In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.”
    ― Galileo Galilei
    tags: dissent, independent-thought, reasoning, science, scientific-method, truth-telling
    380 likes

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    Richard P. Feynman
    “If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part.”
    ― Richard P. Feynman
    tags: science
    384 likes

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    Isaac Newton
    “Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.”
    ― Isaac Newton
    tags: id, intelligent-design, religion, religion-and-science, science, science-and-religion
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    Richard P. Feynman
    “What I am going to tell you about is what we teach our physics students in the third or fourth year of graduate school... It is my task to convince you not to turn away because you don't understand it. You see my physics students don't understand it... That is because I don't understand it. Nobody does.”
    ― Richard P. Feynman, QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
    tags: physics, science
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    Nikola Tesla
    “Life is and will ever remain an equation incapable of solution, but it contains certain known factors.”
    ― Nikola Tesla
    tags: humor, inspiration, inspirational, life, science
    257 likes

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    Nikola Tesla
    “If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.”
    ― Nikola Tesla
    tags: energy, frequency, vibration
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    Nikola Tesla
    “If your hate could be turned into electricity, it would light up the whole world.”
    ― Nikola Tesla
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    Nikola Tesla
    “Everyone should consider his
    body as a priceless gift from
    one whom he loves above all, a
    marvelous work of art, of
    indescribable beauty, and
    mystery beyond human conception, and so delicate that
    a word, a breath, a look, nay, a
    thought may injure it.”
    ― Nikola Tesla
    424 likes



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