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• Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.

  Thomas Huxley

  Beautiful, Common Sense, Ugly

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• In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.

  Thomas Huxley

  Work, Facts, Scientist

  Methods and Results The Progress of Science (p. 62)

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• I don't like it, and I'm sorry I ever had anything to do with it.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Sorry, Apology, Technology

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• It is a popular delusion that the scientific enquirer is under an obligation not to go beyond generalisation of observed facts...but anyone who is practically acquainted with scientific work is aware that those who refuse to go beyond the facts, rarely get as far.

  Thomas Huxley

  Facts, Delusion, Obligation

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• The difference between screwing around and science is writing it down.

  Adam Savage

  Funny, Writing, Differences

  TV Series "MythBusters" ("Bouncing Bullet", 2012), (2003- ).

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• The one experience that I hope every student has at some point in their lives is to have some belief you profoundly, deeply hold, proved to be wrong because that is the most eye-opening experience you can have, and as a scientist, to me, is the most exciting experience I can ever have.

  Lawrence M. Krauss

  Faith, Hope, Eye

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• You don't have to get a job that makes others feel comfortable about what they perceive as your success. You don't have to explain what your plan to do with your life. You don't have to justify your education by demonstrating its financial rewards. You don't have to maintain an impeccable credit score. Anyone who expects you to do any of those things has no sense of history of economics or science or the arts.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Life, Success, Education

  Cheryl Strayed (2015). “Brave Enough: A Mini Instruction Manual for the Soul”, p.10, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Now with the allocation and the understanding of the lack of understanding, we enter into a new era of science in which we feel nothing more than so much so as to say that those within themselves, comporary or non-comporary, will figuratively figure into the folding of our non-understanding and our partial understanding to the networks of which we all draw our source and conclusions from.

  Reggie Watts

  Understanding, Today, Eras

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• With so many scientific achievements we know so little of where we came from and where we are going. But we know even less of the most important discovery of all – Love. Only love can accept our differences as we journey through life. And only love can allow space for our growth.

  Akiane Kramarik

  Love, Life, Acceptance

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• It was the evidence from science and history that prompted me to abandon my atheism and become a Christian.

  Lee Strobel

  Faith, Christian, Atheist

  Twitter post from Mar 20, 2017

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• The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.

  Ruth Benedict

  Differences, Safety, Humanity

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• We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself.

  Brian Cox

  Life, Mean, People

  "Wonders of the Universe (Messengers)". Documentary, March 27, 2011.

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• I like to think of mathematicians as forming a nation of our own without distinctions of geographical origin, race, creed, sex, age or even time... all dedicated to the most beautiful of the arts and sciences.

  Julia Robinson

  Beautiful, Art, Sex

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• Most achievements in science are to a certain degree group efforts.

  Willard Libby

  Inspirational, Teamwork, Collective Effort

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• We endeavour to employ only symmetrical figures, such as should not only be an aid to reasoning, through the sense of sight, but should also be to some extent elegant in themselves.

  John Venn

  Sight, Use, Aids

  "Symbolic Logic". book by John Venn, 1881.

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• Why are there organized beings? Why is there something rather than nothing? Here again, I fully understand a scientist who refuses to ask it. He is welcome to tell me that the question does not make sense. Scientifically speaking, it does not. Metaphysically speaking, however, it does. Science can account for many things in the world; it may some day account for all that which the world of phenomena actually is. But why anything at all is, or exists, science knows not, precisely because it cannot even ask the question.

  Etienne Gilson

  Understanding, Doe, World

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• I believe that mathematical reality lies outside us, that our function is to discover or observe it, and that the theorems which we prove, and which we describe grandiloquently as our "creations," are simply the notes of our observations.

  G. H. Hardy

  Lying, Believe, Math

  G. H. Hardy (1992). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.123, Cambridge University Press

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• The day we stop exploring is the day we commit ourselves to live in a stagnant world, devoid of curiosity, empty of dreams.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Inspirational, Dream, Discovery

  Twitter post from Aug 04, 2012

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• What I thought was unreal now, for me, seems in some ways to be more real than what I think to be real, which seems now to be unreal

  Fred Alan Wolf

  Real, Thinking, Way

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• It seems that for success in science or art, a dash of autism is essential.

  Hans Asperger

  Funny, Success, Art

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• Every good mathematician is at least half a philosopher, and every good philosopher is at least half a mathematician.

  Gottlob Frege

  Philosophy, Analysis, Half

  Attributed in "Mathematics as grammar: 'Grammar' in Wittgenstein's philosophy of mathematics during the Middle Period" by A. A. B. Aspeitia, Indiana University, (p. 25), 2000.

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• Given any rule, however �fundamental� or �necessary� for science, there are always circumstances when it is advisable not only to ignore the rule, but to adopt its opposite.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Philosophy, Opposites, Fundamentals

  Paul Feyerabend (1993). “Against Method”, p.14, Verso

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• There is superficial conflict but deep concord between science and theistic religion, but superficial concord and deep conflict between science and naturalism

  Alvin Plantinga

  Philosophy, Agreement, Religion

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• Imagination is as vital to any advance in science as learning and precision are essential for starting points.

  Percival Lowell

  Learning, Aquariums, Imagination

  Percival Lowell (1903). “The Solar System: Six Lectures Delivered at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in December, 1902”

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• There is no scientific study more vital to man than the study of his own brain. Our entire view of the universe depends on it.

  Francis Crick

  Men, Views, Anatomy And Physiology

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