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Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are alw

Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature. – Paul Valery

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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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Art
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Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows. – Paul Valery

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A body of work such as Pasteurs is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in. – Jean Rostand

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Science

I have a Ph.D. in cell biology. And thats really manual labor. I mean, experimental science, you do it with your hands. So its very different. Youre out there in a lab, cleaning test tubes, and it just wasnt that fascinating. – Barbara Ehrenreich

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Science

This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it. – Thomas Carlyle

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Science

Instead of having to be a member of the Royal Society to do science, the way you had to be in England in the 17th, 18th, centuries today pretty much anybody who wants to do it can, and the information that they need to do it is there. – Seth Lloyd

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The true art of memory is the art of attention. – Samuel Johnson

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There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease. – Nelson Mandela

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I have three daughters, so I cant be as tough as I want to be. When you have kids – especially daughters – they know how to work you. Theyre a lot smarter than we are, thats for sure. But Ill be more tough on their boyfriends. – Tim McGraw

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I think women want to take care of themselves, and I think having a voice in how that is done is very important. – Madeleine Albright

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