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Words of wisdom

I profess to learn and to teach anatomy not from books but from dissections, not from the tenets of Philosophers but from the fabric of Nature.
--William Harvey

It is always noteworthy that all those who seriously study this science [the theory of numbers] conceive a sort of passion for it.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss

I have no satisfaction in formulas unless I feel their arithmetical magnitude.
-- Baron William Thomson Kelvin



I try to identify myself with the atoms ... I ask what I would do If I were a carbon atom or a sodium atom.
-- Linus Pauling

There is no area of the world that should not be investigated by scientists. There will always remain some questions that have not been answered. In general, these are the questions that have not yet been posed.
-- Linus Pauling

The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired.
-- Stephen W. Hawking

What is that we human beings ultimately depend on? We depend on our words. We are suspended in language. Our task is to communicate experience and ideas to others.
-- Niels Bohr

A scientist is happy, not in resting on his attainments but in the steady acquisition of fresh knowledge.
-- Max Planck

Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are part of nature and therefore part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.
-- Max Planck

Nature is made in such a way as to be able to be understood. Or perhaps I should put it-more correctly-the other way around, and say that we are made in such a way as to be able to understand Nature.
-- Werner Heisenberg

Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.
-- Richard P. Feynman

Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
-- Sir Isaac Newton

Nature does nothing in vain when less will serve; for Nature is pleased with simplicity and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes.
-- Sir Isaac Newton

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
-- Sir Isaac Newton

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.
-- Albert Einstein

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein

When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.
-- Albert Einstein

Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.
-- Albert Einstein

Imagination is more important than knowledge.
-- Albert Einstein

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.
-- Albert Einstein

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
-- Albert Einstein