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“The serious scientific public trusted him implicitly and consequently had no need to read him. If those people were to start getting critical, no…

— Louis-Ferdinand Céline

“He had a natural appetite for the wonders of the Universe. He wanted to know about science. It’s just that all the science had…

— Carl Sagan

“He went on to say that conclusions arrived at through reasoning had very little or no influence in altering the course of our lives.…

— Carlos Castaneda

“In keeping with the methodical scientist he was, he had been jotting daily notes on his work. But underneath the entry for May 5,…

— Douglas Preston

“The one thing that you can be sure about of what mankind has learned over the centuries...is that he has paid attention to none…

— Tonny K. Brown

“What is there in the precepts of science that keeps a scientist from doing evil?”

— Carl Sagan

“Consequently he himself perceived that a knowledge of mankind would have availed him more than all the legal refinements and philosophical maxims in the…

— Nikolai Gogol

“Moreover, he felt vaguely that what he called his convictions were not only ignorance but were a way of thinking that made the knowledge…

— Leo Tolstoy

“He’d have been a little bit happier if there’d been a demon or some sort of magic. Something simple and understandable. He didn’t like…

— Terry Pratchett

“All he knew was that he could not eat the flesh of this black man, and thus hereditary instinct, ages old, usurped the functions…

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

He saw that science had become as great a hoax as religion, that nationalism was a farce, patriotism a fraud, education a form of…

— Henry Miller

“But on night duty, alone, he had to face the self he had been afraid to uncover, and he was homesick for the laboratory,…

— Sinclair Lewis