When no idea seems right, the right one must seem wrong.
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[O]ne should accept the truth from whatever source it proceeds.
—Maimonides
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Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem.
—Brian Aldiss
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Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day, like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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Those who claim to discover everything but produce no proofs of the same may be confuted as having actually pretended to discover the impossible.
—Archimedes
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The biggest human temptation is … to settle for too little.
—Thomas Merton
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Many people would claim that the boundary conditions are not part of physics but belong to metaphysics or religion. They would claim that nature had complete freedom to start the universe off any way it wanted. That may be so, but it could also have made it evolve in a completely arbitrary and random manner. Yet all the evidence is that it evolves in a regular way according to certain laws. It would therefore seem reasonable to suppose that there are also laws governing the boundary conditions.
—Stephen Hawking
