Boys do not evaluate a book. They divide books into categories. There are sexy books, war books, westerns, travel books, science fiction.… — William Golding Copy Share Image
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Because science flourishes, must poesy decline? The complaint serves but to betray the weakness of the class who urge it. True, in… — Hugh Miller Copy Share Image
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I have come to understand that my hatred of the gym was based on fear and prejudice, a tribal resistance to science,… — Sue Perkins Copy Share Image
It's humbling to realise that the developmental gulf between a miniscule ant colony and our modern human civilisation is only a tiny… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
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The best and safest method of philosophizing seems to be first to inquire diligently into the properties of things, and establishing those… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
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The best scientists and explorers have the attributes of kids! They ask question and have a sense of wonder. They have curiosity.… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
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![“This was borne out again in October 1996 when Pope John Paul II, standing in the context of a train of Catholic thought which stretched back to the Church Fathers said, in essence, "Looks like there's some good evidence for some sort of biological evolution."[22] That is, he said, as so many…” quote by Mark Shea](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/5a3/mark-shea-86645_biological-evolution_this-was-borne-out-again-in-october-1996_2906849.jpg)
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![“Science in England is not a profession: its cultivators are scarcely recognised even as a class. Our language itself contains no single term by which their occupation can be expressed. We borrow a foreign word [Savant] from another country whose high ambition it is to advance science, and whose…” quote by Charles Babbage](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/b12/charles-babbage-8461_accord_science-in-england-is-not-a-profession-i_256777.jpg)
![“Phylogeny and ontogeny are, therefore, the two coordinated branches of morphology. Phylogeny is the developmental history [Entwickelungsgeschichte] of the abstract, genealogical individual; ontogeny, on the other hand, is the developmental history of the concrete, morphological individual.” quote by Ernst Haeckel](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/bfa/ernst-haeckel-20972_abstract_phylogeny-and-ontogeny-are-therefore-the_1640087.png)
![“We are just a blip. I found it very interesting when Clive [Oppenheimer] interviewed the Ethiopian scientists and asked them, "Do we have another 100,000 years?" In their calculation, mankind will be entering a very critical phrase a thousand years from now.” quote by Werner Herzog](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/5c5/werner-herzog-964_calculations_we-are-just-a-blip-i-found-it-very-inter_3209986.jpg)
