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It took less than an hour to make the atoms, a few hundred million years to make the stars and planets, but five billion years to make man!

— George Gamow The Creation of the Universe (1952)

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But while in the free countries philosophers are quite harmless, in the dictatorial countries they constitute a great danger for the development of science.

My World Line : An Informal Autobiography (1970)

If only there were at least one film with some real adventure, something unusual and maybe even fantastic about it.

Mr. Tompkins in Wonderland (1939)

I feel that matter has properties which physics tells you.

It is well known that theoretical physicists cannot handle experimental equipment; it breaks whenever they touch it. Pauli was such a good theoretical physicist that something usually broke in the lab whenever he merely stepped across the threshold.

Thirty Years That Shook Physics : The Story of Quantum Theory (1966)

There was a young fellow from Trinity,
Who took the square root of infinity.
But the number of digits, Gave him the fidgets;
He dropped Math and took up Divinity.

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