Taken from the “Big Bang” book by Simon Singh:

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason and intellect has intended us to forgo their use – Galileo Galilei

The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy – Steven Weinberg

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it’s the exact opposite – Paul Dirac

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1. Some quotes from Paul Graham’s latest article

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