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    In science, "fact" can only mean "confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent." I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.

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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

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I got the bill for my surgery. Now I know what those doctors were wearing masks for.

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The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are read more

The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary.

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We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the read more

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This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved.

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The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think read more

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When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.

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It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity read more

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.

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