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As a result of its generous stand, the University of Chicago's undergraduate college acts as the greatest magnet for neurotic juveniles since the Children's Crusade, with Robert Maynard Hutchins playing the role of Stephen the Shepherd Boy.
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As both capitalist and communist states - not to mention the technological world - have evolved under the illusion that men purposefully built them, ideological optimism seeps into every niche of our lives. It is made worse by mass culture which feeds our
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As scientists, we step on the shoulders of science, building on the work that has come before us - aiming to inspire a new generation of young scientists to continue once we are gone.
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As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been eroded by fifty years of enhanced communications, ever-improving reproduction technologies and increasing wealth.
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Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
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Consistency is a virtue for trains: what we want from a philosopher is insights, whether he comes by them consistently or not.
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Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.
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Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.
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Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.
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Equations are just the boring part of mathematics. I attempt to see things in terms of geometry.
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Even if it turns out that time travel is impossible, it is important that we understand why it is impossible.
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Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.
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Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
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Freedom is the bread and the morning and the risen sun.
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Galileo, perhaps more than any other single person, was responsible for the birth of modern science.
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Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.
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God may exist, but science can explain the universe without the need for a creator.
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Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.
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I am a great believer in luck and the harder I work the more of it I have.
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I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these 'how' and 'why' questions. Occasionally, I find an answer.
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