Quotes to remember

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    “The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.”
    ― Nikola Tesla

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    “The path isn't a straight line; it's a spiral. You continually come back to things you thought you understood and see deeper truths.”
    ~ Barry H. Gillespie

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  5. wegs Matter and Pixie Dust Valued Senior Member

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    Love this, so true.
     
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    Recently, I read that sperm actually spiral as they swim
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    they spiral to swim in a straight line?
     
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    Mathematics expressed in grand fashion
     
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    The flagella acts like a corkscrew or like a turbine if you will . The flagella is driven by a microtubule motor which uses ion flow as the dynamic fuel.
     
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    "In this country, any sort of debate back and forth, any sort of incisive editorial comment in the major newspapers, is almost completely absent... And any member of Congress who's looking to be re-elected couldn't possibly say that they would take a balanced position between Israel and the Palestinians, it's very likely that they would not be re-elected,"
    - Jimmy Carter - 2006
     
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    Why is there something instead of nothing?

    “Nothingness, after all, is simpler than any one particular existing thing ever could be; there is only one nothing, and many kinds of something.”
    ― Sean Carroll, The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself

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    "War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle; therefore they take boys from one village and another village, stick them into uniforms, equip them with guns, and let them loose like wild beasts against each other."
    - Thomas Carlyle
     
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    “Out of the void and vastness of the cosmos, life emerges; audacious, improbable. You and I are here. No other miracle is needed.”
    ― John Mark Green

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    “I've often lost myself, in order to find the burn that keeps everything awake”
    ― Federico García-Lorca

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    “If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were? What if the face you showed the world turned out to be a mask... with nothing beneath it?”
    ― Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes
     
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    Heh. Came across this and thought I shouldn't pass it up.

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    Neither did I, they usually had to carry me away....

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    "We are men and our lot in life is to learn and to be hurled into inconceivable new worlds."--Carlos Castaneda
     
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    "Oh these foolish men! They could not create so much as a worm, but they create gods by the dozens."
    - Michel de Montaigne
     
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    “Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light;
    I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
    ― Sarah Williams, Twilight Hours: A Legacy Of Verse

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