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The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.

The problem with mathematics is that it's not a spectator sport. You can't just watch someone else do it and expect to understand it.

The real problem of humanity is the following: We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology.

God created, Linnaeus organized.

The most dangerous worldview is the worldview of those who have not viewed the world.

Our minds, our brains, are the most complicated things in the universe. We can't expect to understand them without a lot of hard work.

DNA is a language, a code, a set of instructions. It's the software of life.

The results of the experiments, however, afford some guarantee that the method employed was the correct one.

It is an excellent method for the discovery of truth to proceed from the known to the unknown.

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change.

The ocean acts as a great equalizer of temperature, and its influence on the climate is very considerable.

We know more than we can tell.

The most important thing in this science is to know the properties of things, for without this knowledge, one cannot achieve anything.

Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.

I can make urea without needing a kidney, or indeed, any animal at all.

We must admit that the number of molecules in equal volumes of different gases, at the same temperature and pressure, is the same.

I was captured by chemistry and by crystals.

Chance favors only the prepared mind.

If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.

The greatest discoveries of science have been made by the application of common sense to the facts of nature.