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Stephen Hawking: “To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.”

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Carl Sagan: “Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.”

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Robert C. Solomon: “Whether one sees the world as God's creation or as a secular mystery that science is on the way to figuring out, there is no denying the beauty and majesty of everything from mountain ranges, deserts, and rain forests to the exquisite details in the design of an ordinary mosquito.” more

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Charles Darwin: “Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.”

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Madame de Stael: “Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.”

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Emerson M. Pugh: “If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't.”

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Albert Einstein: “Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal. ”

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Linus Pauling: “Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly. ”

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Linus Pauling: “Science is the search for truth -- it is not a game in which one tries to beat his opponent, to do harm to others. We need to have the spirit of science in international affairs, to make the conduct of international affairs the effort to find t he right solution, the just solution of international problems, not the effort by each nation to get the better of other nations, to do harm to them when it is possible.”

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Immanuel Kant: “Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing wonder and awe -- the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me. ”

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Parker J. Palmer: “Science requires an engagement with the world, a live encounter between the knower and the known.”

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Linus Pauling: “There is no area of the world that should not be investigated by scientists. There will always remain some questions that have not been answered. In general, these are the questions that have not yet been posed. ”

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Isaac Newton: “I seem to have been like a child playing on the seashore, finding new and then a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay undiscovered before me.”

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Henri-Frederic Amiel: “Society lives by faith, and develops by science.”

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LInus Pauling: “Science cannot be stopped. Man will gather knowledge no matter what the consequences - and we cannot predict what they will be. Science will go on -- whether we are pessimistic, or are optimistic, as I am. I know that great, interesting, and valuable discoveries can be made and will be made... But I know also that still more interesting discoveries will be made that I have not the imagination to describe -- and I am awaiting them, full of curiosity and enthusiasm.”

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Louis D. Brandeis: “The world presents enough problems if you believe it to be a world of law and order; do not add to them by believing it to be a world of miracles.”

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.”

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Richard Dawkins: “After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn't it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked -- as I am surprisingly often -- why I bother to get up in the mornings.”

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Albert Einstein: “I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts.”

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Isaac Asimov: “Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.”

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Isaac Asimov: “A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.”

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Henri Poincare: “Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science.”

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Mohandas K. Gandhi: “The Roots of Violence:
Wealth without work,
Pleasure without conscience,
Knowledge without character,
Commerce without morality,
Science without humanity,
Worship without sacrifice,
Politics without principles.”

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A. Eustace Haydon: “It is at once evident that a religion which is able to make vital connection with a world-view based on the principles inherent in evolution, democracy, and science will be a new thing under the sun.”

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Albert Einstein: “Science can only determine what is, but not what shall be, and beyond its realm, value judgements remain indispensable. Religion, on the other hand, is concerned only with evaluating human thought and actions; it is not qualified to speak of real facts and the relationships between them.”

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Plotinus: “Knowledge has three degrees -- opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.”

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Jules H. Poincare: “It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.”

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Jonas Salk: “Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.”

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Jean Rostand: “When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic.”

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Albert Einstein: “There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.”

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