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You can stop splitting the atom; you can stop visiting the moon; you can stop using aerosols; you may even decide not…
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Molecular biology is essentially the practice of biochemistry without a license.
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One of the most insidious and nefarious properties of scientific models is their tendency to take over, and sometimes supplant, reality.
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Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question 'How?' but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question 'Why?'
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He [said of one or other eminent colleagues] is a very busy man, and half of what he publishes is true, but…
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Life is the continuing intervention of the inexplicable.
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Scientific fashions last longer than women's fashions but not as long as men's
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There are no such men today. We have created a mechanism that makes it practically impossible for a real genius to appear.…
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Science is now the craft of the manipulation, substitution and deflection of the forces of nature. What I see coming is a…
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If you can modify a cell, it's only a short step to modifying a mouse, and if you can modify a mouse,…
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The results serve to disprove the tetranucleotide hypothesis. It is, however, noteworthy-whether this is more than accidental, cannot yet be said-that in…
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There is no question in my mind that we live in one of the truly bestial centuries in human history. There are…
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In 2004, I wrote 'What We've Lost,' a book about the Bush administration. It sold only reasonably well, in part, I think,…
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The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue; a half-truth is always the ally of some vice.
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Guys, I don't want to tell you half-truths, unless they're completely accurate.
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In battling evil, excess is good; for he who is moderate in announcing the truth is presenting half-truth. He conceals the other…
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We ought not to extract pernicious honey from poison blossoms of misrepresentation and mendacious half-truth, to pamper the course appetite of bigotry…
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Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.
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If people depend on me to be a man of truth, I have to prove again and again and again and again…
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Aristotle discovered all the half-truths which were necessary to the creation of science.
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He [said of one or other eminent colleagues] is a very busy man, and half of what he publishes is true, but…
— Erwin Chargaff
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Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.
— Langston Hughes
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A half truth is the worst of all lies,because it can be defended in partiality.
— Solon
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Those who don’t read the newspapers are better off than those who do insofar as those who know nothing are better off…
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