"Though many have tried, no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science, which can do so much, cannot decide what it ought to do."

Joseph Wood Krutch, American Environmentalist

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"Though many have tried, no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science, which can do so much, cannot decide what it ought to do."

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"Human psychology is the most mysterious thing in the world."

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"Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not."

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"In our world," said Eustace, "a star is a huge ball of flaming gas."Even in your world, my son, that is not what a star is, but only what it is made of."

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"The universe rings true whenever you fairly test it."

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"The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking."

Albert Einstein, German Scientist

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"We in science are spoiled by the success of mathematics. Mathematics is the study of problems so simple that they have good solutions."

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"Psychology is more concerned with identifying the degree of mental disorder and less with its cure!"

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"A drop of water is not immortal; it can be resolved into oxygen and hydrogen. If, therefore, a drop of water were to maintain that it had a quality of aqueousness which would survive its dissolution we should be inclined to be skeptical. In like manner we know that the brain is not immortal..."

Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher

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"Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know."

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"Scientists have an expression for hypotheses that are utterly useless even for learning from mistakes. They refer to them as being "not even wrong." Most so-called spiritual discourse is of this type."

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"Human psychology is the most mysterious thing in the world."

"Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not."

"In our world," said Eustace, "a star is a huge ball of flaming gas."Even in your world, my son, that is not what a star is, but only what it is made of."

"The universe rings true whenever you fairly test it."

"The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking."

"We in science are spoiled by the success of mathematics. Mathematics is the study of problems so simple that they have good solutions."

"Psychology is more concerned with identifying the degree of mental disorder and less with its cure!"

"A drop of water is not immortal; it can be resolved into oxygen and hydrogen. If, therefore, a drop of water were to maintain that it had a quality of aqueousness which would survive its dissolution we should be inclined to be skeptical. In like manner we know that the brain is not immortal..."

"Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know."

"Scientists have an expression for hypotheses that are utterly useless even for learning from mistakes. They refer to them as being "not even wrong." Most so-called spiritual discourse is of this type."

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"What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants."

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"Any euphemism ceases to be euphemistic after a time and the true meaning begins to show through. It's a losing game, but we keep on trying."

"Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want."

"When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of god we call him a sportsman."

"The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only."

"The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February."

"Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments, but I have never heard of one who suffered from insomnia."