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The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it. ↗

— Edward de Bono

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Many applications of the coincidence method will therefore be found in the large field of nuclear physics, and we can say without exaggeration that the method is one of the essential tools of the modern nuclear physicist. ↗

— Walther Bothe

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Jesus is an example. We have other examples, including many of our ancestors as role models who understood the inner meaning of our orientation. ↗

— Malcolm Boyd

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Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent. ↗

— Sydney Brenner

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I think that my biggest role models are people that have maybe struggled for a while and then finally gotten to their destination. ↗

— Jonathan Brandis

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The kind of support encouraged by such modes of expression has always arisen basically from confusing the fatherland itself with the social conditions which happened to prevail in it. ↗

— Hjalmar Branting

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I'm a very modest person. ↗

— Drew Brees

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So that's when I saw the DNA model for the first time, in the Cavendish, and that's when I saw that this was it. And in a flash you just knew that this was very fundamental. ↗

— Sydney Brenner

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Fortunately, human beings are remarkably diverse models to work from. ↗

— David Brin

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