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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.”
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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.”
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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.”
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“You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep seated need to believe”
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“Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.”
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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.”
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“It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.”
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“I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale.”
Marie Curie quotes (French Physicist, twice winner of the Nobel Prize, 1867-1934)
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“We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.”
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“Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.”
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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“Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense”
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