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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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    Albert Einstein
    “If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: science
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    Isaac Asimov
    “The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
    ― Isaac Asimov
    tags: life, science, wisdom
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    Stephen Hawking
    “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.”
    ― Stephen Hawking
    tags: philosophy, science
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    Carl Sagan
    “Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
    ― Carl Sagan
    tags: astronomer, science, writer
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    Albert Einstein
    “The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.”
    ― Albert Einstein, The World As I See It
    tags: 1931, art, mystery, philosophy, science
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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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    Arthur C. Clarke
    “I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke
    tags: extraterrestrials, humor, intelligent-life, life, science, universe
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    Stephen Hawking
    “We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.”
    ― Stephen Hawking
    tags: inspirational, science
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    Terry Pratchett
    “In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies
    tags: humor, metaphysics, physics, 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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    Douglas Adams
    “Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
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    Carl Sagan
    “If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”
    ― Carl Sagan, Cosmos
    tags: science
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: failure, intelligence, science, scientific-process, success, truth
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    Carl Sagan
    “For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.”
    ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
    tags: cosmology, delusion, knowledge, religion, science, truth, understanding
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    You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new
    “You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
    To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
    ― Buckminster Fuller
    tags: activism, adaption, change, development, digital-revolution, future, movement, new-models, p2p, progress, progression, protest, revolution, science, society, structural-changes, technology, world, zeitgeist, zeitgeist-movement
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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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    Carl Sagan
    “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.”
    ― Carl Sagan
    tags: evidence, faith, science, skepticism
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    David Mitchell
    “I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there.”
    ― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
    tags: cloud-atlas, inspirational, inspirational-quotes, life, science
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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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    Ray Bradbury
    “We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.”
    ― Ray Bradbury
    tags: sense-of-wonder, universe
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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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    Abraham H. Maslow
    “I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.”
    ― Abraham Maslow, Toward a Psychology of Being
    tags: assumptions, hammer, instrumentalism, problem-solving, psychology, science, temptation
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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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    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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    Carl Sagan
    “We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.”
    ― Carl Sagan
    tags: atheism, 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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    Carl Sagan
    “I don't want to believe. I want to know.”
    ― Carl Sagan
    tags: atheism, education, religion, science
    808 likes



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