"Outside his own ever-narrowing field of specialization, a scientist is a layman. What members of an academy of science have in common is a certain form of semiparasitic living."

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Source : Erwin Chargaff (1977). “Voices in the labyrinth: nature, man, and science”, Harper San Francisco

Erwin Chargaff

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“Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure.”
“Do they hate the idea of her, because she's different from them, and that in this difference there might be some sort of inferiority or superiority that is hers or theirs, that in the end threatens the potential happiness of everyone?”

Source : Steven Galloway (2009). “The Cellist of Sarajevo”, p.90, Atlantic Books Ltd
“It's often said that God works in mysterious ways. You have to really think about what He's trying to do. You can't be lazy and believe in God; He doesn't make it that easy. It takes spirit and faith and passion to really believe. Like most things worthwhile in life, you get back what you put into it. Only with faith, you get back a lot more.”

Source : David Baldacci (2011). “The Christmas Train”, p.228, Pan Macmillan
“Of all the wastes of human ignorance perhaps the most extravagant and costly to human growth has been the waste of the distinctive powers of womanhood after the child-bearing age.”

Source : Anna Garlin Spencer (1908). “Woman's Share in Social Culture”
“Tug on anything in nature and you will find it connected to everything else.”
“I'm pleased that they performed as well as they did while we've been in Miami and that's about as far as it goes. Now, we've got to go home and play as well or better.”

Source : "2014 NBA Finals: Spurs keep foot on pedal, win Game 4 convincingly against James, Heat" by Michael Lee, www.washingtonpost.com. June 13, 2014.
“What we gain by experience is not worth that we lose in illusion”
“The research worker, in his efforts to express the fundamental laws of Nature in mathematical form, should strive mainly for mathematical beauty. He should take simplicity into consideration in a subordinate way to beauty ... It often happens that the requirements of simplicity and beauty are the same, but where they clash, the latter must take precedence.”

Source : Lee Smolin (2013). “Time Reborn: From the Crisis in Physics to the Future of the Universe”, p.141, Knopf Canada

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