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The full area of ignorance is not mapped. We are at present only exploring the fringes.

We will have to give up taking things for granted, even the apparently simple things.

All that glitters may not be gold, but at least it contains free electrons.

The only way of learning the method of science is the long and bitter way of personal experience.

Life is a partial, continuous, progressive, multiform and conditionally interactive self-realization of the potentialities of atomic electron states.

Published papers may omit important steps and the memory of men of science, even the greatest, is sadly fallible.

We are still too close to the birth of the universe to be certain about its death.

Men will not be content to manufacture life: they will want to improve on it.

The beauty of life is, therefore, geometrical beauty of a type that Plato would have much appreciated.

If science were communism, was it also not possible that communism could itself become a science?

The region of the mysterious is rapidly shrinking.