From a long view of the history of mankind the most significant event of the nineteenth century will be judged as Maxwell's discovery of the laws of electrodynamics.
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We are very lucky to be living in an age in which we are still making discoveries. It is like the discovery of America, you only discover it once. The age in which we live is the age in which we are discovering the fundamental laws of nature, and that day will never come again. It is very exciting, it is marvelous, but this excitement will have to go.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
If we want to solve a problem that we have never solved before, we must leave the door to the unknown ajar.
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I can live with doubt and uncertainty. I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.
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There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.
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Posted by: Luisa Marcangeli
Science is believeing in the ignorance of the experts.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Life)
Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things which are there.
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