"Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world."

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Source : 1876 Toast at the banquet of the International Congress of Sericulture (translated by Rene Dubois).

Louis Pasteur

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“You shouldn't be a prisoner of your own ideas.”

Source : Interview with Saul Ostrow, bombmagazine.org. October 1, 2003.
“I don't see any significant recession or depression in the offing.”
“Effort is admirable. Achievement is valuable.”
“Beautiful, damn hard, increasingly useful. That's fractals.”

Source : "Ig Nobels Highlight Science of a Special Kind". "Talk of the Nation: Science Friday", www.npr.org. November 24, 2006.
“I don't know what I'll be like when I'm 60. I already have the traits of a retired gentleman.”
“If I had my choice in life I would have had the gifts of Tennessee Williams or Eugene O'Neill. Unfortunately my gifts lie in comedy and so comedy comes fairly easy to me and I occasionally have an idea for a very serious piece and I do it, but the ideas don't come that readily to me.”
“[On her mother:] My relationship with her is close, painful, and skaky, and I always have to keep searching for a sign of love. Everything I do, I do to please her, to make her smile, to ward off her fury. This work is extremely exhausting ...”
“There's an aspect of human nature in which we want to think we're better than somebody else. They're a different color. They speak a different language. They have a different name for the Creator. Whatever it is, that makes it okay for me to hate them, to try to get some of their land or some of their resources.”

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