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An archaeologist is someone whose career lies in ruins.
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Isn't it marvelous how those scientists know the names of all those stars?
-Source Unknown
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Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.
-Paul Ambroise Valery
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Science is feasible when the variables are few and can be enumerated; when their combinations are distinct and clear. We are tending toward the condition of science and aspiring to do it. The artist works out his own formulas; the interest of science lies in the art of making science.
-Paul Ambroise Valery
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A physicist's journey starts with putting two numbers together, and ends with taking the Universe apart.
-Michael Wakcher
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It would be a poor thing to be an atom in a universe without physicists, and physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
-George Wald
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If politicians and scientist were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
-Evelyn Waugh
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To us, men of the West, a very strange thing happened at the turn of the century; without noticing it, we lost science, or at least the thing that had been called by that name for the last four centuries. What we now have in place of it is something different, radically different, and we don't know what it is. Nobody knows what it is.
-Simone Weil
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The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.
-Steven Weinberg
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Man has to awaken to wonder -- and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.
-Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Books about Science
