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• Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

  John Dewey

  Change, Creativity, Imagination

  The Quest for Certainty Ch. 11

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• My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "The Private Albert Einstein". Book by Peter A. Bucky, 1992.

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• Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.

  Carl Sagan

  Atheist, Mean, Interesting

  Carl Sagan (1979). “Broca's brain: reflections on the romance of science”, Random House Inc

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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.

  Carl Sagan

  Motivational, Education, Knowledge

  "Why We Need To Understand Science". The Skeptical Inquirer Vol. 14, Issue 3, www.csicop.org. Spring 1990.

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• Science can never solve one problem without raising ten more problems.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Sarcastic, Creating, Problem

  "Einstein on Cosmic Religion and Other Opinions and Aphorisms".

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• All great truths begin as blasphemies.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Religious, Atheist, Truth

  Annajanska (1919)

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

  Carl Sagan

  God, Spiritual, Philosophy

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.54, Ballantine Books

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  Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

  Philip K. Dick

  Atheist, Real, Believe

  Valis ch. 5 (1981). Originally appeared in a 1978 lecture by Dick entitled "How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart in Two Days." See Paktor 1

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  A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

  Immanuel Kant

  Life, Motivational, Success

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• The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.

  Carl Sagan

  Doe, Spirituality, Immensity

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.54, Ballantine Books

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• What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.

  Werner Heisenberg

  Perception, Quantum Physics, Method

  Physics and Philosophy (1958)

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• The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.

  Albert Einstein

  Education, Numbers, Simplicity

  1970 Quoted in Life Magazine, 9 Jan.

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• Science is the search for truth - it is not a game in which one tries to beat his opponent, to do harm to others.

  Linus Pauling

  Games, Trying, Opponents

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• Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.

  Edwin Powell Hubble

  Motivational, Travel, Adventure

  Edwin Powell Hubble (1954). “The Nature of Science: And Other Lectures”

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• A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.

  James D. Watson

  Stupid, Numbers, Dull

  James D. Watson (2011). “The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to support or prop up their beliefs. Yet has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science? ... No other human institution comes close.

  Carl Sagan

  Thinking, People, Support

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.55, Ballantine Books

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• If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a nonworking cat.

  Douglas Adams

  Cat, Hands, Trying

  "The Salmon of Doubt". Book by Douglas Adams, 2002.

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• God does not play dice.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Letter to Max Born, 4 Dec. 1926, in Einstein und Born Briefwechsel (1969) p. 130 (often quoted as Gott wrfelt nicht God does not play dice, e.g. in B. Hoffmann Albert Einstein (1973) ch. 10)

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  If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

  Isaac Newton

  Inspirational, Teamwork, Humility

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• Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.

  Niels Bohr

  Crazy, Technology, Madness

  "First Philosophy: The Theory of Everything". Book by Spencer Scoular, 2007.

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• You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Inspiring, Meaningful

  Mark Twain (1889). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, p.422, Createspace Independent Pub

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• The sound of progress is perhaps the sound of plummeting hypotheses.

  Peter Haggett

  Progress, Sound, Hypothesis

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• Science is the century-old endeavor to bring together by means of systematic thought the perceptible phenomena of this world into as thorough-going an association as possible.

  Albert Einstein

  Mean, Together, World

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.22, Open Road Media

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• Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce.

  John F. Kennedy

  Art, Stars, Ocean

  Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1961

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