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"Science is like a love affair with nature; an elusive, tantalizing mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists and turns of romantic love, but that's part of the game."



Vilayanur S. Ramachandran



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The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.

Stephen Hawking
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Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself.

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Science is a way to call the bluff of those who only pretend to knowledge. It is a bulwark against mysticism, against superstition, against religion misapplied to where it has no business being.

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Science is a beautiful gift to humanity; we should not distort it.

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Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.

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Science knows no country because knowledge belongs to humanity.

Louis Pasteur
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Science is simply common sense at its best.

Thomas Huxley
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Science is not only a discipline of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.

Stephen Hawking
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Science is magic that works.

Kurt Vonnegut
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Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.

Donald Knuth
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Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself.

Richard Feynman
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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

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Science is the key to our future, and if you don't believe in science, then you're holding everybody back.

Bill Nye
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The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

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Science is not a boy's game, it's not a girl's game. It's everyone's game. It's about where we are and where we're going.

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Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

Hippocrates
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Science is a way of life. Science is a perspective. Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding in a manner that's precise, predictive and reliable, a transformation, for those lucky enough to experience it, that is empowering and emotional.

Brian Greene
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Science is the great intellectual adventure of humankind.

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Science is curiosity, testing, and experimenting.

Richard Feynman
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Science is a way to teach how something gets to be known, what is not known, to what extent things are known (for nothing is known absolutely), how to handle doubt and uncertainty, what the rules of evidence are, how to think about things so that judgments can be made, how to distinguish truth from fraud and from show.

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Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.

Carl Sagan
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Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

Adam Smith
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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

Richard Dawkins
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The science of genetics is in a transition period, becoming an exact science.

Hermann Muller
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Science is a way of life. It is a way of questioning, testing, and verifying our understanding of the world.

Steven Novella
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Science is not a body of facts. Science is a method for deciding whether what we choose to believe has a basis in the laws of nature or not.

Richard Dawkins
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Science is not only a disciple of reason but also one of romance and passion.

Stephen Hawking
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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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Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.

Richard Feynman
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The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.

Arthur C. Clarke
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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant
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The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'

Isaac Asimov
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Science is a way of life that can be embraced by all; it is not only for scientists.

Robert Lanza
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Science is the pursuit of knowledge, but also the questioning of knowledge.

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The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
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The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.

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Science is the best tool ever devised for understanding how the world works.

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Science is the acceptance of what works and the rejection of what does not. That needs more courage than we might think.

Jacob Bronowski
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Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber if he has common sense on the ground floor.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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Science is the search for truth, that is the effort to understand the world: it involves the rejection of bias, of dogma, of revelation, but not the rejection of morality.

Linus Pauling
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Science is the systematic classification of experience.

George Henry Lewes
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Science is the poetry of reality.

Richard Dawkins
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The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.

Edward Teller
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Science is the art of creating suitable illusions which the fool believes or argues against, but the wise man enjoys for their beauty or their ingenuity, without being blind to the fact that they are human veils and curtains concealing the abysmal darkness of the unknowable.

H. L. Mencken
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