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Science is an intellectual journey, and to me, it's not the destination, it's the journeyto get there. it's a way of thinking and it's an intellectual curiosity, a desire to know how the world works, and to know what the fundamental principles of the world are, and to know our place in it. i think once we stop asking questions like "what is the age of the universe," or "how are the instructions of dna carried out on a microscopic level," once we stop asking questions like that, we're dead.
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Science Is An Intellectual Journey, And To

Alan Lightman
Science is an intellectual journey, and to me, it's not the destination, it's the journeyto get there. it's a way of thinking and it's an intellectual curiosity, a desire to know how the world works, and to know what the fundamental principles of the world are, and to know our place in it. i think once we stop asking questions like "what is the age of the universe," or "how are the instructions of dna carried out on a microscopic level," once we stop asking questions like that, we're dead.
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