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title: "7 Truths Science Quotes by 7 authors"
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> [The study of science, dissociated from that of philosophy and literature, narrows the mind and weakens the power to love and follow…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-lancaster-spalding/the-study-of-science-dissociated-from-that-of-philosophy-and/)

[John Lancaster Spalding](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-lancaster-spalding/)

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> [“The truth is that science started its modern career by taking over ideas derived from the weakest side of the philosophies of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-north-whitehead/the-truth-is-that-science-started-its-modern-career-by-taking-over/)

[Alfred North Whitehead](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alfred-north-whitehead/)

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> [The benefits of science are not only material ones. The truths that science teaches are of common interest the world over. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-compton/the-benefits-of-science-are-not-only-material-ones-the-truths-that/)

[Arthur Compton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-compton/)

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> [“Science-Fiction, in which the revealed truths of Science may be given interwoven with a pleasing story which may itself be poetical and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/science-fiction-in-which-the-revealed-truths-of-science-may-be-given/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [The purpose of scientific method is to select a single truth from among many hypothetical truths. That, more than anything else, is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-m-pirsig/the-purpose-of-scientific-method-is-to-select-a-single-truth-from/)

[Robert M. Pirsig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-m-pirsig/)

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> [“The idea that scientific method is the only method of discovering the truth has a lot to be said for it, if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-scruton/the-idea-that-scientific-method-is-the-only-method-of-discovering-the/)

[Roger Scruton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roger-scruton/)

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> [We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chauncey-wright/we-receive-the-truths-of-science-by-compulsion-nothing-but-ignorance/)

[Chauncey Wright](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chauncey-wright/)

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