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"This does not mean a meteor has fallen. This is the discovery of a star."

— Ai Weiwei

Art1957

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"The experience or the vision is the artist’s counterpart to the scientific discovery of a principle or law. What the scientist does when he discovers a new law is to give a new ordering to observed fa…"

— Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

Politics1888–1975

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"In the scientist’s house are many mansions... Outsiders often regard science as a sober enterprise, but we who are inside see it as the most romantic of all callings. Both views are right. The romance…"

— Pat Langley

Science1953

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"Physics is by no means "finished". But the part of it that explains almost everything in the universe—including us—is finished, and much of it has been finished for a century or more. This includes th…"

— Alexander Rosenberg

Philosophy1965

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