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Science is a philosophy of discovery. Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance. ↗

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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We make versions, and true versions make worlds. ↗

— Nelson Goodman

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The greatest obstacle to progress in science is the illusion of knowledge. ↗

— Professor Mike Disney Cardiff University

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The positivists have a simple solution: the world must be divided into that which we can say clearly and the rest, which we had better pass over in silence. But can anyone conceive of a more pointless philosophy, seeing that what we can say clearly amounts to next to nothing? If we omitted all that is unclear, we would probably be left completely uninteresting and trivial tautologies. ↗

— Werner Heisenberg

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So strong was the preconception of absolute space and time in the scientific mentality of those days, that Lorentz did not realize the grand transcendence of what he had discovered, and contented himself with remodeling the edifice of Physics -- instead of rebuilding it with a new foundation. ↗

— Felix Alba-Juez

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(When asked what he thought of Western civilization): 'I think it would be a good idea. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

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Fas est ab hoste doceri. One should learn even from one's enemies. ↗

— Ovid

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I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies. ↗

— Aristotle

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The best revenge is not to be like your enemy. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

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