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"It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars."

"When we decode a cookbook, every one of us is a practicing chemist. Cooking is really the oldest, most basic application of physical and chemical forces to natural materials."

"Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response."

"When you find yourself beginning to feel a bond between yourself and the people you photograph, when you laugh and cry with their laughter and tears, you will know you are on the right track."

"We are the music makers. We are the dreamers of the dream."

"When war is declared, truth is the first casualty."

"Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway."

"The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease."

"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."

"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'"

"There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere."

"Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night."

"John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war."

"Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up. Well, maybe once."

"I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them."

"The eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love."

"What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish."

"No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible."

"When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes."

"Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."

"I invent nothing, I rediscover."

"Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight."

"I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need."

"Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely."

"History is the great dust-heap... a pageant and not a philosophy."

"In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?"

"What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art."

"There is always music amongst the trees in the garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it."

"The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing."

"Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life."