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"Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house."
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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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"... science must sometimes be treated as a possible enemy."
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"It is a strange fact, incidentally, that religious apologists love the anthropic principle. For some reason that makes no sense at all, they think it supports their case. Precisely the opposite is true. The anthropic principle, like natural selection, is an alternative to the design hypothesis. It provides a rational, design-free explanation for the fact that we find ourselves in a situation propitious to our existence."
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"Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little to cure diseases of which they know less in human beings of whom they know nothing."
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"Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact."
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"We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology."
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"It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics."
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"Darwin gives courage to the rest of science that we shall end up understanding literally everything, springing from almost nothing - a thought extremely hard to comprehend and believe."
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"If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non-working cat."
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"Mathematicians are born, not made."
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"Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations between objects."
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"Need we add that mathematicians themselves are not infallible?"
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"No more than these machines need the mathematician know what he does."
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"In the old days when people invented a new function they had something useful in mind."
People
"Facts do not speak."
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"A small error in the former will produce an enormous error in the latter."
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"A very small cause which escapes our notice determines a considerable effect that we cannot fail to see, and then we say that the effect is due to chance."
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"It has adopted the geometry most advantageous to the species or, in other words, the most convenient."
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"Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything."
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