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One thing about a science: it works.
If an engineer knows his business, his bridge does not fall down.

— Chad Oliver

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He has looked long at the stars, and that is the beginning of wisdom.

The Winds of Time (1956)

His eyes told him the truth: Lake City was not precisely a ghost town, but the coffin was ready and the hole was dug.

The Winds of Time (1956)

Ignorance always carries a price tag.

He talked, and listened, and tried to do the hardest thing of all.
He tried to understand.

The Winds of Time (1956)

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The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

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All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.

Albert Einstein Moral Decay (1937)

Science and religion are two human enterprises sharing many features.

Freeman Dyson Infinite in All Directions (1988)

To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.

Henri Poincaré Science and Hypothesis (1901)

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