"The stars are far from eternal, but for man they might as well be."

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“We learn only to ask more questions.”

“3) Stories to end all stories on a given topic, don't.”

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“I had to grin. Morris was shocked and horrified. I'd shown him a brand new sin.”

“Sex was a game nobody lost.”

“Anyone who says human nature can't be changed is out of his head. To make it stick, he's got to define human nature—and he can't.”

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"The equation of motion holds at all times, it is in this sense eternal, whereas the geometrical forms, like the orbits, are changing. Therefore, the mathematical forms that represent the elementary pa…"

— Werner_Heisenberg

Science1901–1976

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"It is conceivable that we might be able to provide good medical care for everyone needing it, in a new system designed to assure equity, provided we can restrain ourselves, or our computers, from desi…"

— Lewis Thomas

Science1913–1993

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"The million, million, million … to one chance happens once in a million, million, million … times no matter how surprised we may be that it results in us."

— Ronald Fisher

Science1890–1962

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"The weather is superb except for a very keen wind which causes me to lose much time. - I am doing a portrait of your mother in pastel, it seems it is not adequate as a likeness, it is too old, too red…"

— Camille Pissarro

Art1830–1903

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