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The human race, whose intelligence dates back only a single tick of the astronomical clock, could hardly hope to understand so soon what it all means.

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The human race, whose intelligence dates back only a single tick of the astronomical clock, could hardly hope to understand so soon what it all means.

⇛ James Jeans (Physicist)

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To travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

James Jeans Physicist

The plain fact is that there are no conclusions.

James Jeans Physicist

One must stand stiller than still. On reverse time travel.

James Jeans Physicist

The universe begins to look more like a great thought than a great machine.

James Jeans Physicist

Through the ages, man's main concern was life after death. Today, for the first time, we find we must ask questions about whether there will be life before death.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Physiologist

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

B. F. Skinner Psychologist

here is a great difference between knowing a thing and understanding it. You can know a lot and not really understand anything.

Charles Kettering Inventor

We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.

Charles Darwin Naturalist

Many of the things that have happened in the laboratory have happened in ways it would have been impossible to foresee, but not impossible to plan for in a sense. I do not think Dr. Whitney deliberately plans his serendipity but he is built that way; he has the art-an instinctive way of preparing himself by his curiosity and by his interest in people and in all kinds of things and in nature, so that the things he learns react on one another and thereby accomplish things that would be impossible to foresee and plan.

Irving Langmuir Researcher

The office of science is not to record possibilities; but to ascertain what nature does ... As far as Darwinism deals with mere arguments of possibilities or even probabilities, without a basis of fact, it departs from the true scientific method and injures science, as most of the devotees of the new ism have already done.

Louis Agassiz Geologist

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