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> [“Science is not a collection of facts. Nor is science something that happens in the laboratory. Science happens in the head. It's a flight of imagination beyond the constraints of ordinary perception. Columbus chapter -The Virgin and the Mousetrap”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chet-raymo/science-is-not-a-collection-of-facts-nor-is-science-something-that/)

[Chet Raymo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chet-raymo/)

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## More by Chet Raymo

> [“In Anton Chekhov’s play the Three Sisters, sister Masha refuses ‘to live and not know why the cranes fly, why children are born, why…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chet-raymo/in-anton-chekhov-s-play-the-three-sisters-sister-masha-refuses-to/)

[Chet Raymo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chet-raymo/)

> [“Science is not a collection of facts. Nor is science something that happens in the laboratory. Science happens in the head. It's a flight…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chet-raymo/science-is-not-a-collection-of-facts-nor-is-science-something-that/)

[Chet Raymo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chet-raymo/)

> [Someone once quoted Shakespeare to the philosopher W. V. O. Quine: There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chet-raymo/someone-once-quoted-shakespeare-to-the-philosopher-w-v-o-quine-there/)

[Chet Raymo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chet-raymo/)

> [I am a cautious pilgrim of the night, a tentative wanderer among the stars. My awareness of my home in the universe is fleeting…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chet-raymo/i-am-a-cautious-pilgrim-of-the-night-a-tentative-wanderer-among-the/)

[Chet Raymo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chet-raymo/)

> [The dark night was the first book of poetry and the constellations were the poems.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chet-raymo/the-dark-night-was-the-first-book-of-poetry-and-the-constellations/)

[Chet Raymo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chet-raymo/)

> [What about self-awareness, the mysterious ability of the brain to reflect upon itself? Self-awareness can be tampered with by brainwashing, psychoactive drugs, electrical stimulation,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chet-raymo/what-about-self-awareness-the-mysterious-ability-of-the-brain-to/)

[Chet Raymo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chet-raymo/)

> [Scratch the surface of knowledge and mystery bubbles up like a spring. And occasionally, at certain disquieting moments in history (Aristarchus, Galileo, Plank, Einstein),…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chet-raymo/scratch-the-surface-of-knowledge-and-mystery-bubbles-up-like-a-spring/)

[Chet Raymo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chet-raymo/)

> [Nancy According to astronomers, every atom in my body was forged in a star. I am made, they insist, of stardust. I am stardust…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chet-raymo/nancy-according-to-astronomers-every-atom-in-my-body-was-forged-in-a/)

[Chet Raymo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chet-raymo/)

> [Knowledge is an island surrounded by a sea of mystery.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chet-raymo/knowledge-is-an-island-surrounded-by-a-sea-of-mystery/)

[Chet Raymo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chet-raymo/)

> [Coincidence is the science of the true believer.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chet-raymo/coincidence-is-the-science-of-the-true-believer/)

[Chet Raymo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chet-raymo/)

> [“Beauty soaks reality as water fills a rag.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chet-raymo/beauty-soaks-reality-as-water-fills-a-rag/)

[Chet Raymo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chet-raymo/)

> [Through our science we have created magnificent spacecrafts and telescopes to explore the night and the light and the half light. We have made…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chet-raymo/through-our-science-we-have-created-magnificent-spacecrafts-and/)

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> [“I am a child of the Milky Way. The night is my mother. I am made of the dust of stars. Every atom in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chet-raymo/i-am-a-child-of-the-milky-way-the-night-is-my-mother-i-am-made-of-the/)

[Chet Raymo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chet-raymo/)

> [ The new advocates of ID \[Intelligent Design\] ask that their ideas be judged by scientific, not religious, criteria. OK, let's see how well ID… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chet-raymo/the-new-advocates-of-id-intelligent-design-ask-that-their-ideas-be/)

[Chet Raymo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chet-raymo/)

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