"Science for me is very close to art. Scientific discovery is an irrational act. It's an intuition which turns out to be reality at the end of it - and I see no difference between a scientist developing a marvelous discovery and an artist making a painting."
- Carlos Rubbia, Nobel prize winning physicist and director of CERN
"We will be better off...if we reach for these goals using all our human dimensions in concert, standing once again in awe before the sunset, the wheel, and what may lie behind them." - Michael Dertouzos (d. 2001; a tribute.)
"Behind the complicated details of the world
stand the simplicities."
- Graham Greene (1904-1991)
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