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William Standish Knowles

"I can't think of any relatives that ever went into science."

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"At the end of all spiritual paths, there lies only a cold graveyard; the path of science is the only path that may give you something better than this!"

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"It is possible for you to realise your dream as a scientist, you must be a passionate learner and curious enough to seek this wonderful career path."

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Amber Hurdle

"... science must sometimes be treated as a possible enemy."

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"There are stars in the night sky that look brighter than the others, and when you look at them through a telescope you realize you are looking at twins. The two stars rotate around each other, sometimes taking nearly a hundred years to do it. They create so much gravitational pull there's no room around for anything else. You might see a blue star, for example, and realize only later that it has a white dwarf as a companion - that first one shines so bright, by the time you notice the second one, it's too late."

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Amber Hurdle

"No definite sciencewithout trial & error."

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"Science is knowledge meeting humility meeting curiosity: ever-evolving, always learning. Atheism is often but knowledge meeting arrogance: a masquerade under the wing of the beauty of science. Religion is infamously a weight under the one wing; then under the other is atheism, the championed masquerade."

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Amber Hurdle

"The ratio of feed to flesh in chicken, the most efficient animal by this measure, is two pounds of corn to one of meat, which is why chicken costs less than beef."

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"How can anyone trust scientists? If new evidence comes along, they change their minds."

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"Where ignorance lurks, so too do the frontiers of discovery and imagination."

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"In fact, the mere act of opening the box will determine the state of thecat, although in this case there were three determinate states the catcould be in: these being Alive, Dead, and Bloody Furious."

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"In those days I was terrible at athletics and never made a team, but quite easily led my class in academics."
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"My family gave me the best in education."
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"My family background was heavily slanted toward business and seafaring matters."
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"To my father, business was the highest calling, but to my mother, medicine was the top profession."
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"I was born in Taunton, Massachusetts on June 1, 1917, but I actually grew up in nearby New Bedford."
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"I'll never forget the fall colors on the Berkshires."
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"At the time my dog had a fungus on her chest that wouldn't heal and resisted treatment. I made an ointment with our product and it cleared up in two days. She lived to 17 years."
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"I was particularly good at math and science."
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"I was one who liked to work with my hands as well as my brain."
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"At this point I was strongly advised that I was too young socially to go to college so I took a second senior year at Andover, another boarding school."
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