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Darwin, Charles. On the Origin of Species. London: John Murray, 1859, ch. 14.

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Darwin, Charles. The Origin of the Species, edited by William Bynum. Penguin, 2009, ch. 14.

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Darwin, Charles. The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex. London: John Murray, 1871, pt. 3, ch. 21.

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Darwin, Charles. The Descent of Man. Penguin Classics, 2004, pt. 3, ch. 21.

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Darwin, Charles. On the Origin of the Species. London: John Murray, 1859, ch. 3.

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Darwin, Charles. The Origin of the Species, edited by William Bynum. Penguin, 2009, ch. 3.

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Newton, Isaac. Letter to Robert Hooke. 5 Feb. 1676.

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Newton, Isaac. Letter to Hooke, 5 February 1675/6." The Correspondence of Isaac Newton. Vol. 1, Cambridge University Press, 2008.

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Newton, Isaac. "Axiomata sive Leges Motus: [Axioms, or Laws of Motion]." Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica [The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy], vol. 1. London: Josephi Streater, 1687, law 3.

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Newton, Isaac. "Axioms, or the Laws of Motion." The Principia, translated by Andrew Motte. Prometheus, 1995, law 3.

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Newton, Isaac. "Axiomata sive Leges Motus: [Axioms, or Laws of Motion]." Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica [The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy], vol. 1. London: Josephi Streater, 1687, law 1.

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Newton, Isaac. "Axioms, or the Laws of Motion." The Principia, translated by Andrew Motte. Prometheus, 1995, law 1.

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Copernicus, Nicolaus. De revolutionibus orbium coelestium [On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres]. Nuremburg: Johannes Petreius, 1543, bk. 1, ch. 9.

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Copernicus, Nicolaus. On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres. Prometheus, 1995, bk. 1, ch. 9.

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Galilei, Galileo. Il Saggiatore [The Assayer]. Rome, 1623.

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Galilei, Galileo. "The Assayer." Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo. Doubleday & Company, 1957.

We had found the secret of life!

Francis Crick

On the discovery of the structure of DNA in 1953.

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Crick, Frances. Quoted in The Double Helix, by James D. Watson. Atheneum Press/Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1968, ch. 26.

Does the flap of a butterfly's wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas?

Edward N. Lorenz

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Lorenz, Edward N. "Predictability: Does the flap of a butterfly's wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas?" Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. 29 Dec. 1979, Washington, DC, USA.

I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita…"Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds."

J. Robert Oppenheimer

On the explosion of the first atomic bomb near Alamogordo, New Mexico, on July 16th, 1945.

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Oppenheimer, J. Robert. Quoted in NBC White Paper: The Decision to Drop the Bomb. Narrated by Chet Huntley, directed by Fred Freed and Len Giovannitti, written by Fred Freed, 5 Jan. 1965, NBC.

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Darwin, Charles. The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex. London: John Murray, 1871, pt. 3, ch. 21.

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Darwin, Charles. The Descent of Man. Penguin Classics, 2004, pt. 3, ch. 21.

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Jeans, James. An Introduction to the Kinetic Theory of Gases. Cambridge University Press, 1940, ch. 2.

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Darwin, Charles. On the Origin of Species. 6th Edition. London: John Murray, 1879, ch. 14.

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Darwin, Charles. The Origin of the Species, edited by William Bynum. Penguin, 2009, ch. 14.

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Darwin, Charles. On the Origin of Species. London: John Murray, 1859, ch. 3.

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Darwin, Charles. On the Origin of Species, edited by William Bynum. Penguin Classics, 2009, ch. 3.

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Newton, Isaac. Opticks: or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light. London: Samuel Smith and Benjamin Walford, 1704, bk. 3, pt. 1, question 31.

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Newton, Isaac. Opticks. Dover Publications, 2012, bk. 3, pt. 1, question 31.

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Heisenberg, Werner. "An Old and a New Tradition." Gifford Lectures. Winter term 1955-1956, University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, Scotland, UK.

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Galilei, Galileo. "Giornata Prima [First Day]." Discorsi e dimostrazioni matematiche intorno a due nuove scienze [Discourses and Mathematicals Demonstrations Relating to Two New Sciences]. Leiden: Ludovico Elzeviro, 1638.

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Dawkins, Richard. "Snake Oil and Holy Water." Forbes ASAP, 4 Oct. 1999.

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Feynman, Richard. "The Value of Science." 1955, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC, USA.