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The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce without morality. Science without humanity. Worship without sacrifice. Politics without principle.From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925
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The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom
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Never memorize something that you can look up
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One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away
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The important thing is to not stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery each day.—"Old Man's Advice to Youth: 'Never Lose a Holy Curiosity.'" LIFE Magazine (2 May 1955) p. 64
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The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be
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The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science
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Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you
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We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special
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I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here
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In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded
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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter
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A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life
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Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less
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Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space
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Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality
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Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality
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If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts
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For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you
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For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you
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For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you
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Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light; I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night
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A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all
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Life would be tragic if it weren't funny
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For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring
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For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring
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So this is it," said Arthur, "We are going to die.""Yes," said Ford, "except... no! Wait a minute!" He suddenly lunged across the chamber at something behind Arthur's line of vision. "What's this switch?" he cried."What? Where?" cried Arthur, twisting round."No, I was only fooling," said Ford, "we are going to die after all
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I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there
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We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively exceeds the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here.We privileged few, who won the lottery of birth against all odds, how dare we whine at our inevitable return to that prior state from which the vast majority have never stirred?