I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact.
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The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he's one who asks the right questions.
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Enthusiastic partisans of the idea of progress are in danger of failing to recognize... the immense riches accumulated by the human race. By underrating the achievements of the past, they devalue all those which still remain to be accomplished.
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The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.
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Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor any one in society alone among the others, so man is not alone in the universe.
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Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.
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The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.
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It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired, you quit when the gorilla is tired.
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The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.
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I've outdone anyone you can name -- Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.
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I have every sympathy with the American who was so horrified by what he had read about the effects of smoking that he gave up reading.
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