“ It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it. ”
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“ It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it. ”
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“ Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty. ”
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“ It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it. ”
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“ This is the concentration camp and crematorium at Auschwitz. This is where people were turned into numbers. Into this pond were flushed the ashes of some four million people. And that was not done by gas. It was done by arrogance. It was done by dogma. It was done by ignorance. When people believe that they have absolute knowledge, with no test in reality, this is how they behave. ”
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“ Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a recreation of her. ”
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“ This is the concentration camp and crematorium at Auschwitz. This is where people were turned into numbers. Into this pond were flushed the ashes of some four million people. And that was not done by gas. It was done by arrogance. It was done by dogma. It was done by ignorance. When people believe that they have absolute knowledge, with no test in reality, this is how they behave. ”
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“ [When] we practice science (and this is true of all our experience), we are always decoding a part of nature which is not complete. We simply cannot get out of our own finiteness. ”
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“ The new theory, of course, always subsumes more effects than the old. But the remarkable thing is that when it is discovered, it also wholly changes our conception of how the world works. ”
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“ We treat ourselves both as objects of language and as speakers of language, both as objects of the symbolism and as symbols in it. And all the difficult paradoxes which go right back to Greek times and reappear in modern mathematics depend essentially on this. ”
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“ It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it. ”
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“ It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it. ”
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“ Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty. ”
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“ We have to understand that the world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is more important than the eye. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind. ”
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“ Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved. ”
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“ The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation…The hand is the cutting edge of the mind. ”
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“ We have to understand that the world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is more important than the eye. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind. ”
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“ That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer. ”
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“ The essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer. ”
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“ That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer. ”
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“ The essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer. ”
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“ Man is not the most majestic of the creatures; long before the mammals even, the dinosaurs were far more splendid. But he has what no other animal possesses: a jigsaw of faculties, which alone, over three thousand million years of life, made him creative… ”
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“ Man is not the most majestic of the creatures; long before the mammals even, the dinosaurs were far more splendid. But he has what no other animal possesses: a jigsaw of faculties, which alone, over three thousand million years of life, made him creative… ”
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“ That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer. ”
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“ The essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer. ”
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