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Organic
chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry
is the study of carbon compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams
Interestingly,
according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a
very comforting thought -- particularly for people who can
never
-- Woody Allen
1935-, American Director,
Screenwriter, Actor, Comedian
Rather than
have it the principal thing in my son's mind, I would gladly
have him think that the sun went round the earth, and that
the stars were so many spangles set in the bright blue
firmament.
-- Thomas Arnold
1795-1842, British Educator,
Scholar
But how is one
to make a scientist understand that there is something
unalterably deranged about differential calculus, quantum
theory, or the obscene and so inanely liturgical ordeals of
the precession of the equinoxes.
-- Antonin Artaud
1896-1948, French Theater
Producer, Actor, Theorist
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When I
am in the company of scientists, I feel like a
shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a
drawing room full of dukes.
-- W. H. Auden
1907-1973,
Anglo-American Poet
Science is but an image of the truth.
-- Francis Bacon
1561-1626, British
Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman
Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the
supernatural out of life, we leave only the
unnatural.
-- Amelia E. Barr
1831-1919,
Anglo-American Novelist
The
microbe is so very small: You cannot take him out at
all.
-- Hilaire Belloc
1870-1953, British
Author
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