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“Science is a way of talking about the universe in words that bind it to a common reality. Magic is a method of talking to the universe in words that it cannot ignore. The two are rarely compatible.”
Neil Gaiman
Science
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Magic
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Reality
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Universe
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Philosophy
2.
“I would feel infinitely more comfortable in your presence if you would agree to treat gravity as a law, rather than one of a number of suggested options.”
Neil Gaiman
Gravity
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Laws
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Science
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Comfort
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Reality
3.
“Many respectable physicists said that they weren't going to stand for this – partly because it was a debasement of science, but mostly because they didn't get invited to those sort of parties.”
Douglas Adams
Science
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Parties
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Humor
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Jealousy
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Professional Pride
4.
“You can't possibly be a scientist if you mind people thinking that you're a fool.”
Douglas Adams
Science
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Perception
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Reputation
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Humor
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Wisdom
5.
“Their minds sang with the ecstatic knowledge that either what they were doing was completely and utterly and totally impossible or that physics had a lot of catching up to do.”
Douglas Adams
Impossibility
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Physics
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Knowledge
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Excitement
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Science
6.
“If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a nonworking cat.”
Douglas Adams
Curiosity
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Cats
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Humor
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Science
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Observation
7.
“Ever since Newton, we've done science by taking things apart to see how they work. What the computer enables us to do is to put things together to see how they work: we're now synthesized rather than analysed. I find one of the most enthralling aspects of computers is limitless communication.”
Douglas Adams
Science
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Computers
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Analysis
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Synthesis
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Communication
8.
“Numbers written on restaurant bills within the confines of restaurants do not follow the same mathematical laws as numbers written on any other pieces of paper in any other parts of the Universe. This single fact took the scientific world by storm.”
Douglas Adams
Humor
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Mathematics
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Restaurants
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Science
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Absurdity
9.
“What does it matter? Science has achieved some wonderful things, of course, but I'd far rather be happy than right any day.”
Douglas Adams
Happiness
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Science
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Priorities
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Philosophy
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Contentment
10.
“The system of life on this planet is so astoundingly complex that it was a long time before man even realized that it was a system at all and that it wasn't something that was just there.”
Douglas Adams
Life
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Complexity
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Understanding
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Science
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Perspective
11.
“See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise, you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.”
Douglas Adams
Science
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Observation
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Methodology
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Expectations
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Advice
12.
“Not content with ignoring the normal requirements of biology, the cat was also in clear breach of the laws of physics.”
Douglas Adams
Cats
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Humor
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Science
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Absurdity
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Observation
13.
“Humans are mammals and their red blood cells are similar in that they do not have nuclei. Reptiles and birds have nucleated red blood cells, we do.”
John Grisham
Biology
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Science
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Blood Cells
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Animal Kingdom
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Cellular Differences
14.
“Empirical sciences prosecuted purely for their own sake, and without philosophic tendency are like a face without eyes.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
Science
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Philosophy
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Knowledge
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Emptiness
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Intellectual Purpose
15.
“The man, whose acquaintance with the world does not lead him deeper than science leads him, will never understand what it is that the man with the spiritual vision finds in these natural phenomena. The water does not merely cleanse his limbs, but it purifies his heart; for it touches his soul. The earth does not merely hold his body, but it gladdens his mind; for its contact is more than a physical contact – it is a living presence.”
Rabindranath Tagore
Science
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Spirituality
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Nature
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Deeper Understanding
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Soul Connection
16.
“Without art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without science, we should always worship false gods.”
W.H. Auden
Art
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Science
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Spirituality
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Culture
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Duality
17.
“And make us as Newton was, who in his garden watching The apple falling towards England, became aware Between himself and her of an eternal tie.”
W.H. Auden
Science
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Discovery
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Connection
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Nature
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Universal Laws
18.
“The true men of action in our time, those who transform the world, are not the politicians and statesmen, but the scientists.”
W.H. Auden
Science
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Progress
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Politics
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Action
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Societal Change
19.
“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.”
W.H. Auden
Self-deprecation
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Science
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Social Status
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Insecurity
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Comparison
20.
“Anyone who has a child today should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then he'll escape.”
W.H. Auden
Parenting
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Career Choices
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Escape
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Science
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Art
21.
“Healing is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.”
W.H. Auden
Healing
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Intuition
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Nature
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Art
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Science
22.
“When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.”
W.H. Auden
Insecurity
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Social Status
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Science
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Clergy
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Self-deprecation
23.
“Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation.”
W.H. Auden
Politics
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Science
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Theory
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Practice
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Academic Disciplines
24.
“Freedom, the first-born of science.”
Thomas Jefferson
Freedom
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Science
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Knowledge
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Discovery
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Inquiry
25.
“If you are obliged to neglect any thing, let it be your chemistry. It is the least useful and the least amusing to a country gentleman of all the ordinary branches of science.”
Thomas Jefferson
Science
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Education
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Priorities
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Rural Life
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Personal Advice
26.
“Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science by rendering them my supreme delight.”
Thomas Jefferson
Science
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Nature
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Personal Calling
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Passion
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Self-awareness
27.
“Biochemically, love is just like eating large amounts of chocolate.”
John Milton
Love
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Science
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Humor
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Chemistry
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Human Emotion
28.
“It is decreed by a merciful Nature that the human brain cannot think of two things simultaneously, so that if it be steeped in curiosity as to science it has no room for merely personal considerations.”
Arthur Conan Doyle
Human Mind
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Science
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Focus
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Nature
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Personal Matters
29.
“The true scientific mind is not to be tied down by its own conditions of time and space. It builds itself an observatory erected upon the border line of present, which separates the infinite past from the infinite future. From this sure post it makes its sallies even to the beginning and to the end of all things. As.”
Arthur Conan Doyle
Science
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Time
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Space
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Intellect
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Philosophy
30.
“Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner.”
Arthur Conan Doyle
Detective Work
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Science
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Emotion
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Methodology
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Professionalism
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