“We have failed to protect science against speculative extensions of nature, continuing to assign physical and mathematical properties to hypothetical entities beyond what is observable in nature.”
— Robert Lanza
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“Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.”
— Bertrand Russell
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“One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.”
— Robert A. Heinlein
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“I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions – adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.”
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
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“But there is only one surefire method of proper pattern recognition, and that is science.”
— Michael Shermer
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“But the power of science lies in open publication, which, with the rise of the Internet, is no longer constrained by the price of paper.”
— Michael Shermer
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“Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.”
— Edsger Dijkstra
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“One hardly knows where, in the history of science, to look for an important movement that had its effective start in so pure and simple an accident as that which led to the building of the great Washington telescope, and went on to the discovery of the satellites of Mars.”
— Simon Newcomb
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“Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.”
— Oscar Wilde
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“Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.”
— Miguel de Unamuno
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“I am a caricature of what British science is about in the way I work.”
— Martin Fleischmann
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