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Lawrence Bragg, a shrewd observer of the birth of quantum mechanics, summed up the situation in a few words: "Everything in the future is a wave — everything in the past is a particle."

— Freeman Dyson

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The laws of nature are constructed in such a way as to make the universe as interesting as possible.

Imagined Worlds (1997)

Like many other crucially important technologies, hay emerged anonymously during the so-called Dark Ages.

Infinite in All Directions (1988)

An awareness of our smallness may help to redeem us from the arrogance which is the besetting sin of the scientists.

Infinite in All Directions (1988)

There is no such thing as a unique scientific vision, any more than there is a unique poetic vision. Science is a mosaic of partial and conflicting visions.

The Scientist As Rebel (2006)

The progress of science requires the growth of understanding in both directions, downward from the whole to the parts and upward from the parts to the whole.

The Scientist As Rebel (2006)

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You can never plan the future by the past.

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If we don’t care about our past we can’t have very much hope for our future.

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