"I think there is a tendency in science to measure what is measurable and to decide that what you cannot measure must be uninteresting."

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Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

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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."

Douglas Adams, English Writer

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"The disruption of science is one which abandons the method and seeks to conquer grounds outside its territory. It is not at all religion but this pseudo-science that is the enemy of science."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

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"You can't understand depth of science, unless you challenge the published scientific data."

Amit Ray, Indian Author

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Steven Magee, British Author

Science, Space, Energy, Astronomy

"You can put the human mind and body into strange states through the use of alien environments."

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"The vitamin, mineral, metal and oil content of the human body drastically alters its reactivity to radiation exposures."

Steven Magee, British Author

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"Perhaps a physicist would know at once why this whole idea was absurd. But then, perhaps a physicist would be so locked into the consensus of his scientific community that it would be harder for him to accept an idea that transformed the meaning of everything he knew. Even if it were true."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

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"Mathematics possesses not only truth but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere like that of a sculpture."

Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher

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"Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science."

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"The disruption of science is one which abandons the method and seeks to conquer grounds outside its territory. It is not at all religion but this pseudo-science that is the enemy of science."

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