"The plain fact is that there are no conclusions. If we must state a conclusion, it would be that many of the former conclusions of the nineteenth-century science on philosophical questions are once again in the melting-pot."

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Source : James Jeans, Sir James Hopwood Jeans (1981). “Physics and Philosophy”, p.216, Courier Corporation

James Jeans

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“The less judgment the more curiosity, and the more curiosity the more creativity.”
“One of the most significant facts about humanity may finally be that we all begin with the natural equipment to a live a thousand kinds of life but end in the end having lived only one”

Source : Clifford Geertz (1973). “The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays”, p.45, Basic Books
“Socialism is simply Communism for people without the testosterone to man the barricades.”
“Really, what education does is it gives opportunity, but it also gives hope.”

Source : "Greg Mortenson: 'Ordinary Oprah'". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. March 12, 2009.
“So I work hard to present the human side of my characters while not neglecting the plot.”
“I'm really bad at being nonviolent.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“There is a time in a boy’s life when the sweetness is pounded out of him; and tenderness, and the ability to show what he feels, is gone.”
“I was always looking ahead. I used to do all kinds of things for entertainment. When I was young, we had no radio, no TV. We were 30 miles from the public library, out in the sticks in Western Kansas, and so I'd do arithmetic exercises.”

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