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We can't avoid age. However, we can avoid some aging. Continue to do things. Be active. Life is fantastic in the way it adjusts to demands; if you use your muscles and mind, they stay there much longer.

~Charles H. Townes

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The development of science is basically a social phenomenon, dependent on hard work and mutual support of many scientists and on the societies in which they live.

~Charles H. Townes

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I was brought up as Christian, and while my ideas have changed, I have always felt myself religiously oriented.

~Charles H. Townes

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Science is exploration. The fundamental nature of exploration is that we don't know what's there. We can guess and hope and aim to find out certain things, but we have to expect surprises.

~Charles H. Townes

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There is some truth to the idea that, in the fields of science, individual contributions of great significance are possible.

~Charles H. Townes

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The imposing edifice of science provides a challenging view of what can be achieved by the accumulation of many small efforts in a steady objective and dedicated search for truth.

~Charles H. Townes

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Alfred Nobel really understood very well the necessary supra-natural character of the human enterprise.

~Charles H. Townes

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I don't think that science is complete at all. We don't understand everything, and one can see, within science itself, there are many inconsistencies. We just have to accept that we don't understand.

~Charles H. Townes

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I knew I wanted to be a scientist. Which kind of scientist was the question.

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Science has faith. We make postulates. We can't prove those postulates, but we have faith in them.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Physicist

Born: July 28th, 1915

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