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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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You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.

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Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

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No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.

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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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Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.

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The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline.

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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 world is full of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.

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The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Scientist

Born: September 1st, 1908

Died: August 22nd, 1974

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