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Reported Speech (scientists' quotes)

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    Form the indirect speech for the sentences.
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  • "Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe."
    Galileo Galilei said (that) mathematics was the language with which God had written the universe.
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  • "I don’t care that they stole my idea . . I care that they don’t have any of their own."
    Nikola Tesla said (that) he didn't care that they had stolen his idea... he cared that they didn't have any of their own.
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  • "Mathematics reveals its secrets only to those who approach it with pure love, for its own beauty."
    Archimedes siad (that) mathematics revealed its secrets only to those who approached it with pure love, for its own beauty.
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  • "The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion."
    Richard Feynman said (that) the highest forms of understanding we could achieve were laughter and human compassion.
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  • "Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts."
    Sigmund Freud said (that) flowers were restful to look at. They had neither emotions nor conflicts.
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  • "Although I cannot move and I have to speak through a computer, in my mind I am free."
    Steven Hawking said (that) although he could not move and had to speak through a computer, in his mind he was free.
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  • "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
    Thomas Edison said (that) he had not failed. He had just found 10,000 ways that wouldn't work.
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  • "Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy."
    Sigmund Freud said (that) dreams were most profound when they seemed the most crazy.
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  • "A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life."
    Charles Darwin said (that) a man who deared to waste one hour of time had not discovered the value of life.
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  • "The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge."
    Stephen Hawking said (that) the greatest enemy of knowledge was not ignorance, it was the illusion of knowledge."
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  • "Physics isn’t the most important thing. Love is."
    Richard Feynman said (that) physics wasn't the most important thing. Love was.
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  • "The science of today is the technology of tomorrow."
    Edward Teller said (that) the science of that day was the technology of the following day."
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  • "No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right but a single experiment can prove me wrong."
    Albert Einstein said (that) no amount of experimentation could ever prove him right but a single experiment could prove him wrong.
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  • "A person who isn’t outraged on first hearing about quantum theory doesn’t understand what has been said."
    Niels Bohr said (that) a person who wasn't outraged on first hearing about quantum theory didn't understand what had been said.
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  • “Never memorize something that you can look up.”
    Albert Einstein said to never memorize something that we could look up.
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  • “An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.”
    Niels Bohr said (that) an expert was a person who had made all the mistakes that could be made in a very narrow field.
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