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One aim of physical sciences had been to give an exact picture the material world. One achievement of physics in the twentieth century has been to prove that that aim is unattainable.

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Dissent is the mark of freedom.

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To imagine is the characteristic act, not of the poet's mind, or the painter's, or the scientist's, but of the mind of man.

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Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

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