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Certainty ends inquiry.


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It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.



No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.

No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.



Ask an impertinent question and you are on the way to the pertinent answer.

Ask an impertinent question and you are on the way to the pertinent answer.



Man is unique not because he does science, and his is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind.

Man is unique not because he does science, and his is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind.



Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.



The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.



We have to understand that the world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is more important than the eye ... The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

We have to understand that the world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is more important than the eye ... The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.



Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding

Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding



Dissent is the mark of freedom.

Dissent is the mark of freedom.



One aim of physical sciences had been to give an exact picture the material world. One achievement of physics in the twentieth century has been to prove that that aim is unattainable.

One aim of physical sciences had been to give an exact picture the material world. One achievement of physics in the twentieth century has been to prove that that aim is unattainable.





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