Response 418

Quotes

  • A Good Pummeling

    ‘The wicked angel of empiricism continues to pummel me.‘― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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  • Bombs

    ‘You drop a bomb and it falls on the just and the unjust. The prudent man can’t escape it, nor the honest man.‘― Isidor Rabi

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  • Oppenheimer

    ‘God knows I’m not the simplest person, but compared to Oppenheimer, I’m very, very simple.‘― Isidor Rabi

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  • Cackle

    ‘Another cackle. Will there ever be an egg ?‘― James Chadwick

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  • Speculation

    ‘There’s speculation, and then there’s more speculation, and then there’s cosmology.‘― Michio Kaku

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  • Italië

    ‘De begeerte om dit land te zien was overrijp; pas nu ze bevredigd is, krijg ik mijn vrienden en vaderland weer innig lief en wordt mijn terugkeer wenselijk, en wel temeer omdat ik het stellige gevoel heb dat ik zovele schatten niet tot eigen bezit en eigen gebruik meeneem, maar dat ze mij en anderen…

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  • Think Different

    ‘Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holees. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t…

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  • Of God and Scientists

    ‘If scientists don’t play God, who will?‘― James Watson

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  • Of God and Men

    ‘Men ought not to play God before they learn to be men.‘― Paul Ramsey

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  • Science and Method

    ‘The scientist does not study nature because it is useful. He studies it because he takes pleasure in it, and het takes pleasure in it because it is beautiful.‘― Henry Poincare, Science & Method, 1908

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