That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.
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Sooner or later every one of us breathes an atom that has been breathed before by anyone you can think of who has lived before us Michelangelo or George Washington or Moses.Jacob Bronowski
Einstein was a man who could ask immensely simple questions. And what his work showed is that when the answers are simple too, then you can hear God thinking.
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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
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To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.
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We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws.
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Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.
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