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...
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Isaac Newton
To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth.
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Evelyn Fox Keller
The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists.
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Unknown
One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.
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Alice James
If time be judiciously employed, there is time for everything.
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George Head
More Quotes By Julian Short
The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things in life like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock. The most successful people in life recognize, that in life they...
We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.
The knowledge that the atoms that comprise life on earth - the atoms that make up the human body, are traceable to the crucibles that cooked light elements into heavy elements in their core under extreme temperatures and pressures. These stars- the high mass ones...
For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.
I know that the molecules in my body are traceable to phenomena in the cosmos. That makes me want to grab people on the street and say: ‘Have you HEARD THIS?
