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The science of constructing a commonwealth, or renovating it, or reforming it, is, like every other experimental science, not to be taught… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
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The CDC has always been an example of unbiased and thorough medical research, both in America and around the world, and we… — Lucy McBath Copy Share Image
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Scientific data are not taken for museum purposes; they are taken as a basis for doing something. If nothing is to be… — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
My book, Oral History: Understanding Qualitative Research is about how researchers use this method and how to write up their oral history… — Patricia Leavy Copy Share Image
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These microscopic organisms form an entire world composed of species, families and varieties whose history, which has barely begun to be written,… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
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Primates stand at a turning point in the course of evolution. Primates are to the biologist what viruses are to the biochemist.… — Alison Jolly Copy Share Image
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![“The Gaia Hypothesis of James Lovelock [and Lynn Margulis] puts forward a scientific view of the living Earth, which in one respect is modern, empherical, scientific, in another respect re-awakens an ancient archetype, which in fact is so clearly suggested by the very name of the hypothesis, Gaia…” quote by Rupert Sheldrake](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/e44/rupert-sheldrake-11866_ancient_the-gaia-hypothesis-of-james-lovelock-an_2853360.png)
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