"The public has a distorted view of science because children are taught in school that science is a collection of firmly established truths. In fact, science is not a collection of truths. It is a continuing exploration of mysteries."

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Source : "How We Know". Freeman Dyson's review of James Gleick's book "The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood" (2011), www.nybooks.com. March 10, 2011.

Freeman Dyson

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“The edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place.”

Source : Rachel Carson, Sue Hubbell (1998). “The Edge of the Sea”, p.1, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“God doesn't want all of us to relinquish all of our material possessions.”
“The weed crushed and pressed by the heavy rock may slowly and gently grow up anew helped by the fresh air, sunshine, and sympathetic rain. On the other hand, the rock is often broken through exposure to nature and weathering. Life is a strong power to grow in tenderness; this fact may be considered as having a close relation with human life. At the same time tenderness has sometimes stronger power against stiffness or hardening due to extreme strain.”

Source : "The Canon of Judo". Book by Kyuzo Mifune, 1956.
“Each of us, I suppose needs his illusions. Life after death. A maker of planets. A woman to love, a man to hate. Something sacred. But what a waste.”
“An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one.”

Source : 'How to be an Alien' (1946) p. 44
“There is no defeat unless one loses God, and then all is defeat, though it be housed in castles and buried in fortunes.”

Source : Frank Charles Laubach (1990). “Man of Prayer: Selected Writings of a World Missionary”
“The incidence of Alzheimer's disease is growing at a pace like never before, affecting people at a younger and younger age. This is the direct effect of nuclear radiation polluting the air of our planet from the power stations and other nuclear experimentation.”

Source : Source: www.edgemagazine.net
“I would have to go back to being a dog. I've called myself a dog for many years.”

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