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- Science is an enterprise that can only flourish if it puts the truth ahead of nationality, ethnicity, class and color.
- Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good.
- The applause is a celebration not only of the actors but also of the audience. It constitutes a shared moment of delight.
- At the heart of science lies discovery which involves a change in worldview. Discovery in science is possible only in societies which accord their citizens…
- A wise man in China asked his gardener to plant a shrub. The gardener objected that it only flowered once in a hundred years. "In…
- Science gives us a powerful vocabulary, and it is impossible to produce a vocabulary with which one can only say nice things.
- Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey.
- Scientia is knowledge. It is only in the popular mind that it is equated with facts.
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