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Famous Quotes about science“ Underlying the diversified and localized gross layers of ordinary consciousness there is a unified, nonlocalized, and subtle layer: pure consciousness. ” “ Even before string theory, especially as physics developed in the 20th century, it turned out that the equations that really work in describing nature with the most generality and the greatest simplicity are very elegant and subtle. ” “ Don't tell me that man doesn't belong out there. Man belongs wherever he wants to go - and he'll do plenty well when he gets there. ” “ Everything has been figured out, except how to live. ” “ It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. ” “ Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. ” “ Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft... and the only one that can be mass-produced with unskilled labor. ” “ Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense, differing from the latter only as a veteran may differ from a raw recruit: and its methods differ from those of common sense only as far as the guardsman's cut and thrust differ from the manner in which a savage wields his club. ” “ And it turned out in string theory in the late '80s and early '90s we actually were able to calculate examples where you could really see changes in the topology of spacetime. ” “ There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program - your tax-dollar will go further. ” “ As far as extra dimensions are concerned, very tiny extra dimensions wouldn't be perceived in everyday life, just as atoms aren't: we see many atoms together but we don't see atoms individually. ” “ There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science. ” “ Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence. ” “ Our sun is one of 100 billion stars in our galaxy. Our galaxy is one of billions of galaxies populating the universe. It would be the height of presumption to think that we are the only living things in that enormous immensity. ” “ The primary reality is the quantum vacuum, the energy- and information-filled plenum that underlies our universe, and all universes in the Metaverse. ” “ If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace. ” “ But the beauty of Einstein's equations, for example, is just as real to anyone who's experienced it as the beauty of music. We've learned in the 20th century that the equations that work have inner harmony. ” “ The subtle energies and information that underlie this universe were there before its particles of matter appeared and will be there after these particles disappear. ” “ We may explore the universe and find ourselves, or we may explore ourselves and find the universe. It matters not which of these paths we choose. ” “ The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless. ” “ Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it. ” “ When science begins the study of non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence. ” “ We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming. ” “ I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. ” |
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