“Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.”
— David Suzuki
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Science must begin with myths, and with
“Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.”
— Karl Popper
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Take young researchers, put them together in
“Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.”
— James D. Watson
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One of the things that ultimately led
“One of the things that ultimately led me to leave mathematics and go into political science was thinking I could prevent nuclear war.”
— Paul Wolfowitz
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Science is not about control. It is
“Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery.”
— Richard Powers
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This means that to entrust to science
“This means that to entrust to science – or to deliberate control according to scientific principles – more than scientific method can achieve may have deplorable effects.”
— Friedrich August von Hayek
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The capacity of the female mind for
“The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science.”
— James Madison
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Nothing has such power to broaden the
“Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.”
— Marcus Aurelius
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Further, the dignity of the science itself
“Further, the dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be explored for the solution of a problem so elegant and so celebrated.”
— Carl Friedrich Gauss
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Tact and diplomacy are fine in international
“Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business; in science only one thing matters, and that is the facts.”
— Hans Eysenck
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Anthropology was the science that gave her
“Anthropology was the science that gave her the platform from which she surveyed, scolded and beamed at the world.”
— Jane Howard
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