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“The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.”
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“If we are going to teach creation science as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction.”
Judith Hayes quotes
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“I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true.”
Dr. Carl Sagan quotes (American Astronomer, Writer and Scientist, 1934-1996)
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“When Kepler found his long-cherished belief did not agree with the most precise observation, he accepted the uncomfortable fact. He preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions; that is the heart of science.”
Dr. Carl Sagan quotes (American Astronomer, Writer and Scientist, 1934-1996)
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“The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.”
Robert A. Heinlein quotes (American science-fiction Writer, 1907-1988)
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“The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired.”
Stephen Hawking quotes (English Physicist, b.1942)
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“There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.”
Louis Pasteur quotes (French Chemist and Microbiologist, 1822-1895)
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“There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That's perfectly all right; they're the aperture to finding out what's right. Science is a self-correcting process. To be accepted, new ideas must survive the most rigorous standards of evidence and scrutiny.”
Dr. Carl Sagan quotes (American Astronomer, Writer and Scientist, 1934-1996)
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“It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.”
Albert Einstein quotes (German born American Physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity. Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921. 1879-1955)
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“Science may have found a cure for most evils, but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all--the apathy of human beings.”
Helen Keller quotes (American Author and Educator who was blind and deaf. 1880-1968)
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“I like to browse in occult bookshops if for no other reason than to refresh my commitment to science.”
Heinz R. Pagels quotes
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