From religion comes a man’s purpose; from science, his power to achieve it. Sometimes people ask if religion and science are not opposed to one another. They are: in the sense that the thumb and fingers of my hand are opposed to one another. It is an opposition by means of which anything can be grasped.
—William Lawrence Bragg
The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.
—William Lawrence Bragg
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