"Language is conceived in sin and science is its redemption."

Willard Van Orman Quine, American Philosopher

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"It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature."

Albert Einstein, German Scientist

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Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher

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"What Galileo and Newton were to the seventeenth century, Darwin was to the nineteenth."

Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher

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"Learn about the world, the way it works, any kind of science and anthropology, it's really an interesting place we live in. Evolution is a really fantastic idea, even more than the idea of God I think."

Randy Newman, American Comedian

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"Every discovery in pure science is potentially subversive, even science must sometimes be treated as a possible enemy."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

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"Science can make a heart beat with ventilator, but there is only one power that makes it live, that is LOVE which is the purest form of FAITH."

Vikrmn, Indian Author

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"When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean that's faith; when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two that's science."

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"The publication of the third volume of Capital has made hardly any impression upon bourgeois economic science."

Rudolf Hilferding, Austrian Economist

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"It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature."

"The total amount of energy from outside the solar system ever received by all the radio telescopes on the planet Earth is less than the energy of a single snowflake striking the ground."

"Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know."

"What Galileo and Newton were to the seventeenth century, Darwin was to the nineteenth."

"We are well on our way to a unified theory of biology that will merge body and environment, brain and mind, genome and microbiome."

"Learn about the world, the way it works, any kind of science and anthropology, it's really an interesting place we live in. Evolution is a really fantastic idea, even more than the idea of God I think."

"Every discovery in pure science is potentially subversive, even science must sometimes be treated as a possible enemy."

"Science can make a heart beat with ventilator, but there is only one power that makes it live, that is LOVE which is the purest form of FAITH."

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"The publication of the third volume of Capital has made hardly any impression upon bourgeois economic science."

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"Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word."

"Confusion of sign and object is original sin coeval with the word."

"Uncritical semantics is the myth of a museum in which the exhibits are meanings and the words are labels. To switch languages is to change the labels."

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"We do not learn first what to talk about and then what to say about it."

"The familiar material objects may not be all that is real, but they are admirable examples."