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"Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon compounds that crawl."

"Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty."

"Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition."

"The robot is going to lose. Not by much. But when the final score is tallied, flesh and blood is going to beat the damn monster."

"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep."

"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep."

"There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept."

"There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs."

"The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways."

"Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs."

"You don't take a photograph, you make it."

"Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it."

"To live without having a Cicero and a Tacitus at hand seems to me as if it was aprivation of one of my limbs."

"I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy."

"Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space."

"It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment."

"He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife."

"Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?"

"Life is wasted on the living."

"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so."

"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so."

"Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit."

"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts."

"Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results."

"Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart."

"Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate,no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament.It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man? A splendid slave, a reasoning savage."

"Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed."

"I am sure it is a great mistake always to know enough to go in when it rains. One may keep snug and dry by such knowledge, but one misses a world of loveliness."

"History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided."

"She would rather light candles than curse the darkness and her glow has warmed the world."