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— Henri Poincaré
In Henri Poincaré and George Bruce Halsted (trans.), The Value of Science: Essential Writings of Henri Poincare (1907), 86.
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— William Leitch
God's Glory in the Heavens (1862, 3rd Ed. 1867) 327
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— Ralph Waldo Emerson
In 'Country Life', collected in The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (1904), Vol. 12, 166.
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— Allan Rex Sandage
As quoted in John Noble Wilford, 'Sizing up the Cosmos: An Astronomers Quest', New York Times (12 Mar 1991), C10
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— Richard P. Feynman
In 'Astronomy', The Feynman Lectures on Physics (1961), Vol. 1, 3-6
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— Horace Mann
In Thoughts Selected From the Writings of Horace Mann (1872), 41.
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— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Aphorism 23 in Notebook C (1772-1773), as translated by R.J. Hollingdale in Aphorisms (1990). Reprinted as The Waste Books (2000), 35.
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— Benjamin Silliman
In Elements of Chemistry: In the Order of the Lectures Given in Yale College (1830), 11.
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— Lyman Spitzer, Jr.
Opening and closing of 'Flying Telescopes', Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (May 1961), Vol. 17, No. 5, 191 and 194.
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— Stephen Leacock
In Literary Lapses (1928), 128.
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— Joseph Henry
In 'Report of the Secretary', Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution for 1859 (1860), 15.
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— Cornelius Lanczos
In George Edward Martin, The Foundations of Geometry and the Non-Euclidean Plane (1982), 72.
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— Augustus De Morgan
In Budget of Paradoxes (1872), 53-54
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— James Ussher
In 'Epistle to the Reader', The Annals of the World (1658). As excerpted in Wallen Yep, Man Before Adam: A Correction to Doctrinal Theology, "The Missing Link Found" (2002), 18.
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[Co-author with South African mathematician, Seymour Papert (1928- )]
— Marvin Minsky
Artificial Intelligence (1973), 25.
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— Alfred Werner
Autograph Quotation for a Charity, (1905). In G. B. Kaufman, Alfred Werner (1966), iii.
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— Edsger W. Dijkstra
In G. Michael Schneider, Judith L. Gersting, Sara Baase, An invitation to Computer Science: Java version (2000), 2.
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— Sir Martin Rees
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— Jacob Bronowski
From The Common Sense of Science (1951),
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— Ralph Waldo Emerson
From Notes to 'Progress of Culture' in The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Letters and Social Aims (1875, 1904), Vol. 8, 409.
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