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That name was a kind of joke, and not a very good one. An author, Leon Lederman, wanted to call it 'that goddamn particle' because it was clear it was going to be a tough job finding it experimentally. His editor wouldn't have that, and he said, 'okay, call it the God particle,' and the editor accepted it. I don't think he should've have done, because it's so misleading'. ↗

— Peter Higgs

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Information, contemplated over time, is knowledge. ↗

— Robb Johnson

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without being sure of something, we can not begin to think about everything elses ↗

— Kathryn Schulz

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The past and the future are not a collection of instants shared by all space, but a collection of events that correspond to a possible relation of causal order with the present event. ↗

— Felix Alba-Juez

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doubt is a skill. credulity ,by contrast, appears to be something very like an instinct ↗

— Kathryn Schulz

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It would be most satisfactory if physics and psyche could be seen as complementary aspects of the same reality ↗

— Wolfgang Pauli

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Every advance [in Science] will most likely tell us as much about ourselves as it will about the universe we inhabit. We are all collections of chemicals made in the cataclysmic explosions of stars; we are stardust, or nuclear waste, depending on your perspective. ↗

— Michael Brooks

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David could tell, by looking at her face as she read, whether or not the story contained in the book was living inside her, and she in it, and he would recall again all that she had told him about stories and tales and the power that they wield over us, and that we in turn wield over them. ↗

— John Connolly

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A person who promises and does not fulfill his promise is similar to an egg that never hatches. ↗

— Hadas Moosazadeh

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Broken code and broken heart are hard to repair..... ↗

— Akshay Dubey

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