"It would be a poor thing to be an atom in a universe without physicists, and physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms."

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Source : Foreword to L. J. Henderson, The Fitness of the Environment (1958)

George Wald

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“Composers are always going back to the past.”
“Women are my best friends, my best audience. If I look out from the stage and see a lot of men, I know I'm in trouble”
“There are some wounds that one can heal only by deepening them and making them worse.”
“There is always a little more toothpaste in the tube. Think about it.”

Source : Bill Bryson (2000). “The Complete Notes”, Random House
“Liberalism defines government as tyrant father but demands it behave as nurturant mother.”
“The most part of all princes have more delight in warlike manners and feats of chivalry than in the good feats of peace.”
“To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or knaves.”

Source : "A Treatise on Man: His Intellectual Faculties & His Education", Vol. I by Claude Adrien Helvetius, translated by W. Hooper, 1777.
“Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard.”

Source : West Virginia State Bd. of Educ. v. Barnette (1943)

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