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Teaching was my transition from student life to working life. In those days, our system of education was a little different. The… — Pranab Mukherjee Copy Share Image
Despite the best efforts of apologists like William Lane Craig, the 'evidence' for Christianity's truth is, in truth, not the kind that… — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
This success permits us to hope that after thirty or forty years of observation on the new Planet [Neptune], we may employ… — Urbain Le Verrier Copy Share Image
The Whig interpretation of history ... is the tendency in many historians to write on the side of Protestants and Whigs, to… — Herbert Butterfield Copy Share Image
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Corporate America limits the world to consumerism. Science can limit it to the material world. Even religion limits it to a lot… — Scott Derrickson Copy Share Image
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Creationists argue that natural selection is only a negative process, and therefore cannot create anything. Chopra argues that skepticism is only a… — Steven Novella Copy Share Image
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We must trust to nothing but facts: These are presented to us by Nature, and cannot deceive. We ought, in every instance,… — Antoine Lavoisier Copy Share Image
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I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by,… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
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It is pure mythology that women cannot perform as well as men in science, engineering and mathematics. In my experience, the opposite… — Weili Dai Copy Share Image
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In my own view, some advice about what should be known, about what technical education should be acquired, about the intense motivation… — Santiago Ramon y Cajal Copy Share Image
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Common sense is merely unaided intuition, and unaided intuition is reasoning performed in the absense of instruments and the tested knowledge of… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
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