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“I'm also part of the great conspiracy of global scientists to promote the myths of climate change, evolution, vaccination, and a spherical… — Dean Burnett Copy Share Image
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Well, I grew up in Maine, so it was an unlikely place to start. But my parents were really, really cool about… — Anna Kendrick Copy Share Image
The greatest marvel is not in the individual. It is in the succession, in the renewal and in the duration of the… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Copy Share Image
Misunderstanding may arise by confusing the Buddhist and scientific definitions of death. Within the scientific system you spoke quite validly of the… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
If I ask you who is the most famous scientist who ever lived, or the greatest scientist who ever lived you'll say… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
The dispassionate intellect, the open mind, the unprejudiced observer, exist in an exact sense only in a sort of intellectualist folk-lore; states… — Wilfred Trotter Copy Share Image
We academic scientists move within a certain sphere, we can go on being useless up to a point, in the confidence that… — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share Image
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The best sculptor is the one who can most accurately reproduce in marble the image that he sees before him. The good… — Sterling W Sill Copy Share Image
Newton advanced, with one gigantic stride, from the regions of twilight into the noon day of science. A Boyle and a Hooke,… — Thomas Young Copy Share Image
Culture gives us each a sense that life has meaning and that we have value - by offering us assurances of immortality.… — Sheldon Solomon Copy Share Image
The knowledge of Christ is profound and large. All other sciences are but shadows; this is a boundless, bottomless ocean. Though something… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
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I think the least important thing about science fiction for me is its predictive capacity. Its record for being accurately predictive is… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
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It's really not rocket science. If animals are not mere things; if they have moral value, we cannot justify eating, wearing, or… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
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“The Copenhagen Interpretation is sometimes called "model agnosticism" and holds that any grid we use to organize our experience of the world… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
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I was 11 when I started Latin - not like boys, who start early at prep school. At 14, you had to… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
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We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent or self-satisfied;… — Abraham Flexner Copy Share Image
The main theme to emerge... is that there appear to be two modes of thinking, verbal and nonverbal, represented rather separately in… — Roger Wolcott Sperry Copy Share Image
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I may conclude this chapter by quoting a saying of Professor Agassiz, that whenever a new and startling fact is brought to… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
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