Proof is the idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.

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We are bits of stellar matter that got cold by accident, bits of a star gone wrong.

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Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.

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Probably the simplest hypothesis... is that there may be a slow process of annihilation of matter.

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If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.

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Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers.

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Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers.

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It is sound judgment to hope that in the not too distant future we shall be competent to understand so simple a thing as a star.

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It is even possible that laws which have not their origin in the mind may be irrational, and we can never succeed in formulating them.

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We have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind put into nature.

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