"The finest and healthiest thing about science..." - Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche
The finest and healthiest thing about science is, as in the mountains, the brisk air blowing around in it.--The spiritually delicate (such as artists) shun and slander science owing to this air.
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“What does it matter whether I am shown to be right! I am right too much!--And he who laughs best today will also laugh last.”
“When the gratitude that many owe to one discards all modesty, then there is fame.”
“I love him who scattereth golden words in advance of his deeds, and always doeth more than he promiseth: for he seeketh his own down-going.”
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“The natural historian is not a fisherman who prays for cloudy days and good luck merely; but as fishing has been styled "a contemplative man's recreation," introducing him profitably to woods and water, so the fruit of the naturalist's observations is not in new genera or species, but in new contemplations still, and science is only a more contemplative man's recreation.”
“There is not a piece of science, but its flank may be turned tomorrow.”
“Given the millions of billions of Earth-like planets, life elsewhere in the Universe without a doubt, does exist. In the vastness of the Universe we are not alone.”