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It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy books and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case. Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them. Alfred North Whitehead		Wednesday Mar 18, 2026
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I cannot afford to waste my time making money. Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz

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	Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz
	Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz (May 28, 1807—December 14, 1873) was a Swiss-American zoologist, glaciologist, and geologist, the husband of educator Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz, and one of the first world-class American scientists. Read More

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Facts are stupid until brought into connection with some general law. The time has come when scientific truth must cease to be the property of the fewwhen it must be woven into the common life of the world. The study of Nature is intercourse with the Highest Mind. You should never trifle with Nature. I cannot afford to waste my time making money.