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Albert Einstein

Science

1879–1955

"Science is international but its success is based on institutions, which are owned by nations. If therefore, we wish to promote culture we have to combine and to organize institutions with our own power and means."

"Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system with their wonder and enthusiasm for science intact."

"...happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination, resting solely on empirical grounds."

"He hated the fact that he participated in the invention of nuclear weapons, and he doubly hated the fact that he had so much fun doing it."

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Literature

Age of Enlightenment

1749–1832

"Only mankind Can do the impossible: He can distinguish, He chooses and judges, He can give permanence To the moment."

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🇬🇧Alfred North Whitehead

Philosophy

1861–1947

"Men can be provincial in time, as well as in place."

"The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries."

"Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards."

"Let the future tell the truth and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine."

"Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them."

"If you can't be criticized, that's very dangerous."

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🇺🇸Charles Sanders Peirce

Mathematics

pragmatism

1839–1914

"Let us not pretend to doubt in philosophy what we do not doubt in our hearts."

"By now it may be clear that the position I'm developing is a sort of post-Darwinian Kantianism."

"Some blood transfusion from the East to the West is a must to save Western science from spiritual anaemia."

"Max Planck - Encyclopædia Britannica article"

"With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk."

"The false interpreters of nature declare that quicksilver is the common seed of every metal, not remembering that nature varies the seed according to the variety of the things she desires to produce in the world."

"III. Thesis. A God working in Time. . Antithesis. A timeless, personal, omniscient, al-mighty, all-benevolent God ."

"From the intrinsic evidence of his creation, the Great Architect of the Universe now begins to appear as a pure mathematician."

"Sharing the food is to me more important than arguing about beliefs. Jesus, according to the gospels, thought so too."

"How many theorems in geometry which have seemed at first impracticable are in time successfully worked out!"

"The person one loves never really exists, but is a projection focused through the lens of the mind onto whatever screen it fits with least distortion."

"National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoir"

"Topology and number theory are my faves."

"Polish translations of letters written by Copernicus in Latin or German"

"... God must also be an incredible physicist ... there is this phenomenal fine-tuning of the universe that makes complexity and, therefore, life possible."

"Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence."

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William John Macquorn Rankine

Science

1820–1872

"This law , and the law of the maximum efficiency of heat engines, are particular cases of a general law which regulates all transformation of energy, and is the basis of the Science of Energetics."

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🇮🇷Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel

Politics

b. 1945

"Iranian Official: "No Place in Israel Will Be Safe"

"Too many christians have been chargeable with... confounding the Logos of Plato with that of John, and making of it a second person in the trinity, than which no two things can be more different."

"I like Orange County, though. It’s like L.A. without caffeine."

"I just had to take the hypertext idea and connect it to the TCP and DNS ideas and — ta-da!— the World Wide Web."

"One of the key insights of the systems approach has been the realization that the network is a pattern that is common to all life. Wherever we see life, we see networks."

"William Crookes : A Victorian Man of Science" by Cyril Norman Hinshelwood"

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🇺🇸Nicolaas Bloembergen

Science

1920–2017

"Increased knowledge clearly implies increased responsibility."

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🇺🇸Samuel Abraham Goudsmit

Science

1902–1978

"I did all the problems a little different from the rest of the class."

"Dionysius Lardner . A Treatise on Hydrostatics and Pneumatics. Stimson and Clapp. With Benjamin Franklin Joslin."

"In China, programs have to be certified by the government in order to be used on computers there, which sounds an awful lot like the Apple store."

"A knowledge of the construction of the heavens has always been the ultimate object of my observations..."

"The Nobel Prize in Physics 1909 was awarded jointly to Guglielmo Marconi and Karl Ferdinand Braun "in recognition of their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy"

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