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"The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness."

"Scientific knowledge helps people to understand and appreciate the world and all of its complexities; it’s the best insurance against irrational fear."

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🇬🇧Thomas Young (scientist)

Mathematics

1773–1829

"When I was a boy, I thought myself a man. Now that I am a man, I find myself a boy."

"The mutation of bacteria and viruses are merely hereditary fluctuations around a median position; a swing to the right, a swing to the left, but no final evolutionary effect."

"The principle being accepted that all Species of one Genus have arisen from one mother through different fathers, it must be assumed"

"Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind."

"To discover something in mathematics is to overcome an inhibition and a tradition. You cannot move forward if you are not subversive."

"Here we may mount from this dull Earth, and viewing it from on high, consider whether Nature has laid out all her Cost and Finery upon this small Speck of Dirt."

"The isness of things is well worth studying; but it is their whyness that makes life worth living."

"he mirror really is itself, for it changes hands for you as you go through the mirror and changes the motor to a generator at the same time."

"In this fool's paradise he drank delight."

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🇺🇸Theodosius Dobzhansky

Science

1900–1975

"Man is the only living being who has a developed self-awareness and death-awareness."

"Akbar's liberalism can be adjudged from another fact, namely that he issued gold and silver coins bearing the figures of Rama and Sita and inscribed with the legend Rama Siya."

"Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity."

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Leopold III of Belgium

"Life is worth more than any book one can write."

"a feather-bed to catch a falling Christian."

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🇬🇧Alfred Russel Wallace

Science

1823–1913

"Every species has come into existence coincident both in space and time with a pre-existing closely allied species."

"At the risk of being repetitious, I would remind the group that we have found the highest frequency of induced abortion in the group which, in general, most frequently uses contraceptives."

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