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#1

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe

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#2

“You cannot reason people out of a position that they did not reason themselves into.”
― Ben Goldacre, Bad Science

tags: argument, faith, persuasion, science

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#3

“Everything that comes together falls apart. Everything. The chair I’m sitting on. It was built, and so it will fall apart. I’m gonna fall apart, probably before this chair. And you’re gonna fall apart. The cells and organs and systems that make you you—they came together, grew together, and so must fall apart. The Buddha knew one thing science didn’t prove for millennia after his death: Entropy increases. Things fall apart.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

tags: buddha, decomposition, entropy, fall-apart, science, together

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#4

“A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of truth.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: dissent, independent-thought, science

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#5

“Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.”
― Isaac Asimov

tags: philosophy, science

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#6

“Wonder is the seed of knowledge”
― Francis Bacon

tags: science

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#7

“It turned out I was pretty good in science. But again, because of the small budget, in science class we couldn't afford to do experiments in order to prove theories. We just believed everything. Actually, I think that class was called Religion. Religion class was always an easy class. All you had to do was suspend the logic and reasoning you were being taught in all the other classes.”
― George Carlin, Brain Droppings

tags: humor, logic, religion, science

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#8

“You can observe a lot just by watching.”
― Yogi Berra

tags: managment, science, truism

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#9

“Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.”
― Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

tags: science, superstition

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#10

“The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.”
― Bertolt Brecht, Life of Galileo

tags: error, science

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#11

“Science, you don't know, looks like magic.”
― Christopher Moore

tags: magic, science

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#12

“When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson, Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries

tags: science

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#13

“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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#14

“We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.”
― Alan Turing, Computing machinery and intelligence

tags: distance, future, inspirational, progress, science, vision, work

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#15

“Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.”
― Max Planck, Where Is Science Going?

tags: mystery, nature, science

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#16

“A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.”
― Carl Sagan

tags: life, organized-religion, religion, science, zealotry

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#17

“Discovery is always rape of the natural world. Always.”
― Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park

tags: science

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#18

“In the vastness of space and the immensity of time, it is my joy to share a planet and an epoch with Annie.

[Dedication to Sagan's wife, Ann Druyan, in Cosmos]”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

tags: dedication, immensity, joy, love, marriage, science, space, time, true-love, vastness, wife

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#19

“The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike.”
― Delos Banning McKown

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#20

“When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?”
― John Maynard Keynes

tags: open-mindedness, science

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#21

“It's natural to think that living things must be the handiwork of a designer. But it was also natural to think that the sun went around the earth. Overcoming naive impressions to figure out how things really work is one of humanity's highest callings.

[Can You Believe in God and Evolution? Time Magazine, August 7, 2005]”
― Steven Pinker

tags: design, evidence, intuition, natural, science, skepticism, superstition

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#22

“You could give Aristotle a tutorial. And you could thrill him to the core of his being. Aristotle was an encyclopedic polymath, an all time intellect. Yet not only can you know more than him about the world. You also can have a deeper understanding of how everything works. Such is the privilege of living after Newton, Darwin, Einstein, Planck, Watson, Crick and their colleagues.

I'm not saying you're more intelligent than Aristotle, or wiser. For all I know, Aristotle's the cleverest person who ever lived. That's not the point. The point is only that science is cumulative, and we live later.”
― Richard Dawkins

tags: albert-einstein, aristotle, charles-darwin, crick, darwin, einstein, francis-crick, intellect, isaac-newton, james-d-watson, james-watson, knowledge, max-planck, newton, planck, polymath, science, understanding, watson

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#23

“When asked about which scientist he'd like to meet, Neil deGrasse Tyson said, "Isaac Newton. No question about it. The smartest person ever to walk the face of this earth. The man was connected to the universe in spooky ways. He discovered the laws of motion, the laws of gravity, the laws of optics. Then he turned 26.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson

tags: newton, science

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#24

“Jasnah had once defined a fool as a person who ignored information because it disagreed with desired results.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance

tags: bias, bickering, disagreement, falacy, fool, information, intelligence, politics, religion, science, stupidity, wisdom

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#25

“As to diseases, make a habit of two things — to help, or at least, to do no harm.”
― Hippocrates

tags: diseases, harm, medicine, science

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#26

“Ann Druyan suggests an experiment: Look back again at the pale blue dot of the preceding chapter. Take a good long look at it. Stare at the dot for any length of time and then try to convince yourself that God created the whole Universe for one of the 10 million or so species of life that inhabit that speck of dust. Now take it a step further: Imagine that everything was made just for a single shade of that species, or gender, or ethnic or religious subdivision. If this doesn’t strike you as unlikely, pick another dot. Imagine it to be inhabited by a different form of intelligent life. They, too, cherish the notion of a God who has created everything for their benefit. How seriously do you take their claim?”
― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

tags: extraterrestrial, science, science-vs-religion

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#27

“In a very real sense we have two minds, one that thinks and one that feels”
― Daniel Goleman, Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ

tags: biology, emotion, inspirational, love, neuropsychology, science, thoughts

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#28

“If we long for our planet to be important, there is something we can do about it. We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

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#29

“I really don't know why it is that all of us are so committed to the sea, except I think it's because in addition to the fact that the sea changes, and the light changes, and ships change, it's because we all came from the sea. And it is an interesting biological fact that all of us have in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea - whether it is to sail or to watch it - we are going back from whence we came.

[Remarks at the Dinner for the America's Cup Crews, September 14 1962]”
― John F. Kennedy

tags: boats, nature, ocean, sailing, science, sea

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#30

“There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.”
― Hippocrates

tags: ignorance, knowledge, opinion, science

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