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Inspiring quotes from great
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Charles F. Kettering: "The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility."
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Carl Sagan: "Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge."
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Sir Isaac Newton: "If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants."
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Sir Isaac Newton: "A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding."
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Adam Smith: "Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition."
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Edward Teller: "Two paradoxes are better than one; they may even suggest a solution."
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Edward Teller: "The science of today is the technology of tomorrow."
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Henri Poincar: "Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science."
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Maxwell Planck: "A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it."
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Wilbur Wright: "I confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years."
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Alexander Graham Bell: "The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion... It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider - and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation - persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree."
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George Eastman: "Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography."
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Nikola Tesla: "I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success... Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything."
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Enrico Fermi: "There's two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery."
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Wolfgang Pauli: "That theory is worthless. It isn't even wrong!"
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John von Neumann: "It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years"
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Charles F. Kettering: "An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots."
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Charles F. Kettering: "People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people."
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Sir Richard Arman Gregory: "Science is... one of the great human endeavors to be ranked with arts and religion as the guide and expression of man's fearless quest for truth."
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Tom Hanks as Jim Lovell in movie, Apollo 13: "From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle; we just decided to go."
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Albert Einstein: "No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong."
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: "Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science."
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Rene Descartes: "The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries."
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Rene Descartes: "Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems."
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Ray Bradbury: "Touch a scientist and you touch a child."
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Ray Bradbury: "The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible."
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Sir William Bragg: "The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them."
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Thomas A. Edison: "There's a way to do it better - find it."
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Marcus Aurelius: "Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life."
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Isaac Asimov: "The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'"
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Archimedes: "I have found it. (Eureka I have found it.)"
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Archimedes: "Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world."
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Thomas A. Edison: "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure."
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Thomas A. Edison: "Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress."
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Albert Einstein: "We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them."
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Thomas A. Edison: "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."
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Thomas A. Edison: "One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success."
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Thomas A. Edison: "Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged."
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Thomas A. Edison: "Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."
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Thomas A. Edison: "Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless."
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Thomas A. Edison: "It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work."
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Thomas A. Edison: "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves. "
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Albert Einstein: "After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are always artists as well."
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Thomas A. Edison : "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
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Thomas A. Edison: "I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward."
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Thomas A. Edison: "Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits."
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Thomas A. Edison: "Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration."
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Thomas H. Huxley: "Try to learn something about everything and everything about something."
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Thomas H. Huxley: "The ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment... not authority."
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Richard P. Feynman: "The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another"
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Richard P. Feynman: "The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool."
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Richard P. Feynman: "Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?"
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Thomas H. Huxley: "Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing."
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Richard P. Feynman: "I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there."
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Richard P. Feynman: "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. "
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Thomas H. Huxley: "Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic."
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Thomas H. Huxley: "Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men."
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Wernher von Braun: "We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming. "
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Marie Curie: "One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done."
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Marie Curie: "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood."
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Marie Curie: "Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained."
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Marie Curie: "I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries."
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Galileo Galilei: "You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him discover it in himself."
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Galileo Galilei: "The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do."
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Galileo Galilei: "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him."
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Thomas H. Huxley: "Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority."
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Wernher von Braun: "I have learned to use the word "impossible" with the greatest caution."
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Wernher von Braun: "For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother thought it would make the best gift."
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Marie Curie: "Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas."
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Copernicus: "To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge."
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Galileo Galilei: "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."
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Linus Pauling: "The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas."
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Louis Pasteur: "There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science."
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Linus Pauling: "Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life."
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Linus Pauling: "Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly."
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Louis Pasteur: "Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity."
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Louis Pasteur: "In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind."
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Alfred Nobel: "If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied."
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Fred Hoyle: "Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards. "
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Johannes Kepler: "The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment."
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Fred Hoyle: "I don't see the logic of rejecting data just because they seem incredible."
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Charles Darwin: "Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science."
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Charles Darwin: "I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions."
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Charles Darwin: "False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness."
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Charles Darwin: "A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone."
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Charles Darwin: "A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life."
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Galileo Galilei: "All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them."
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