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“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
― Carl Sagan

tags: astronomer, science, writer

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“We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.”
― Stephen Hawking

tags: inspirational, science

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“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens

tags: atheism, reason, science, skeptic

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#4

“A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.”
― Charles Darwin, The Life & Letters of Charles Darwin

tags: dare, inspirational, life, science, time, value, waste

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#5

“The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson

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#6

“Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.”
― Alan Alda

tags: assumptions, close-mindedness, intelligence, isaac-asimov, knowledge, open-mind, open-mindedness, open-minds, opinions, receptivity, science, science-of-mind

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#7

“For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.”
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

tags: cosmology, delusion, knowledge, religion, science, truth, understanding

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#8

“Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.”
― Michael Crichton, State of Fear

tags: bigotry, fiction, prejudice, science

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#9

“Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: education, knowledge-wisdom, learning, school, science, wisdom

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#10

“I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.”
― Richard P. Feynman

tags: science

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#11

“I like the scientific spirit—the holding off, the being sure but not too sure, the willingness to surrender ideas when the evidence is against them: this is ultimately fine—it always keeps the way beyond open—always gives life, thought, affection, the whole man, a chance to try over again after a mistake—after a wrong guess.”
― Walt Whitman, Walt Whitman's Camden Conversations

tags: affection, certainty, doubt, evidence, guess, humble, ideas, life, mistake, science, scientific, skepticism, surrender, thought

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#12

“We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.”
― Carl Sagan

tags: atheism, science

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#13

“I don't want to believe. I want to know.”
― Carl Sagan

tags: atheism, education, religion, science

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#14

“I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.”
― Antonio Gramsci, Antonio Gramsci: Prison Letters

tags: intellect, intelligence, optimism, pessimism, science, will

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#15

“Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.”
― Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers

tags: knowledge, life, misattributed-to-kant, paraphrasing-herbert-spencer, science

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#16

“The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he's one who asks the right questions.”
― Claude Levi-Strauss

tags: questions, science

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#17

“Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.”
― Jules Verne, A Journey to the Center of the Earth

tags: experience, failure, science

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#18

“Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.”
― Richard P. Feynman

tags: doubt, science, science-vs-religion

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#19

“I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.”
― Richard Feynman

tags: answers, questions, science

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#20

“Magic's just science that we don't understand yet.”
― Arthur C. Clarke

tags: magic, science

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#21

“There are three stages in scientific discovery. First, people deny that it is true, then they deny that it is important; finally they credit the wrong person.”
― Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything

tags: science

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#22

“We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.”
― Richard P. Feynman

tags: science

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#23

“No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.”
― Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion

tags: future, gains, hope, illusion, inspirational, knowledge, progress, science, understanding

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#24

“In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.”
― Galileo Galilei

tags: dissent, independent-thought, reasoning, science, scientific-method, truth-telling

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#25

“Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings.”
― Victor Stenger

tags: religions, science

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#26

“Questions you cannot answer are usually far better for you than answers you cannot question.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

tags: science

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#27

“Millions saw the apple fall, Newton was the only one who asked why?”
― Bernard M. Baruch

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#28

“Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. I have only begun to learn content and peace of mind since I have resolved at all risks to do this.”
― Thomas Huxley, Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 1

tags: abyss, facts, humble, inspirational, learning, nature, open-minded, peace, peace-of-mind, preconceptions, preparation, risk, science

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#29

“Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.”
― Carl Sagan

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#30

“There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority, and science, which is based on observation and reason. Science will win because it works.”
― Stephen Hawking

tags: religion, religion-and-science, science

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