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• Science emerges from the other progressive activities of man to the extent that new concepts arise from experiments and observations, and that…
• Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance. . . .…
• In every section of the entire area where the word science may properly be applied, the limiting factor is a human one.…
• A conceptual scheme is never discarded merely because of a few stubborn facts with which it cannot be reconciled; a conceptual scheme…
• Some of mankind's most terrible misdeeds have been committed under the spell of certain magic words or phrases.
• Education is what is left after all that has been learnt is forgotten.
• He who enters a university walks on hallowed ground.
• Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence.
• The dignity of man is vindicated as much by the thinker and poet as by the statesman and soldier.
• Just like a turtle, we only make progress if we stick our neck out.
• Public education is a great instrument of social change. Through it, if we so desire, we can make our country more nearly…
• Science advances, not by the accumulation of new facts, but by the continuos development of new concepts.

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