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Would I lay down my life to save my brother? No, but I would to save two brothers or eight cousins.

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My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.

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We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.

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The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards these theories not as statements of ultimate fact but as art-forms.

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It is my supposition that the Universe in not only queerer than we imagine, is queerer than we can imagine.

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If one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of his creation it would appear that God has a special fondness for stars and beetles.

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A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult.

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I have never yet met a healthy person who worried very much about his health, or a really good person who worried much about his own soul.

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While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.

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Until politics are a branch of science we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Scientist

Born: November 5th, 1892

Died: December 1st, 1964

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