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Quote by Paul Valery
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us. – Paul Valery

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Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business. – Paul Valery

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In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well. – Paul Valery

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Every beginning is a consequence — every beginning ends some thing. – Paul Valery

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For me, science is already fantastical enough. Unlocking the secrets of nature with fundamental physics or cosmology or astrobiology leads you into a wonderland compared with which beliefs in things like alien abductions pale into insignificance. – Paul Davies

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The relevance of Marxism to science is that it removes it from its imagined position of complete detachment and shows it as a part, but a critically important part, of economy and social development. – John Desmond Bernal

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There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere. – Isaac Asimov

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