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The girls got sent to the domestic science room and the boys to the science lab. ... I protested — unsuccessfully.

— Jocelyn Bell Burnell

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Sometimes you discover the picture you thought you had, that everybody thought we had, actually turns out to be wrong.

Beautiful Minds (2010)

Nothing is static, nothing is final, everything is held provisionally.

Beautiful Minds (2010)

I have this sense that we need to picture cosmology, the evolution of the universe in a whole new way.

Beautiful Minds (2010)

Scientists should never claim that something is absolutely true. You should never claim perfect, or total, or 100% because you never ever get there.

Beautiful Minds (2010)

Science doesn't always go forwards. It's a bit like doing a Rubik's cube. You sometimes have to make more of a mess with a Rubik's cube before you can get it to go right.

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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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