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If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos.
Robert Quillen 
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Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed.
Howard Nemerov 
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I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.
E. B. White 
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There was no "before" the beginning of our universe, because once upon a time there was no time.
John D. Barrow 
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Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.
Wilhelm Reich 
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I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.
Oliver Wendell Holmes 
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Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.
Martin Luther King, Jr. 
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If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.
Francis Bacon 
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Anthropology was the science that gave her the platform from which she surveyed, scolded and beamed at the world.
Jane Howard 
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