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The true men of action in our time those who transform the world are not the politicians and statesmen but the scientists. Unfortunately poetry cannot celebrate them because their deeds are concerned with things, not persons, and are therefore speechless. When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes. ↗

— W.H. Auden

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But then science is nothing but a series of questions that lead to more questions. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

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Science knows it doesn't know everything; otherwise, it'd stop. But just because science doesn't know everything doesn't mean you can fill in the gaps with whatever fairy tale most appeals to you. ↗

— Dara Ó Briain

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A kiss without a moustache, they said then, is like an egg without salt; I will add to it: and it is like Good without Evil. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

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Upon this first, and in one sense this sole, rule of reason, that in order to learn you must desire to learn, and in so desiring not be satisfied with what you already incline to think, there follows one corollary which itself deserves to be inscribed upon every wall of the city of philosophy: Do not block the way of inquiry. ↗

— Charles S. Peirce

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He who replies to words of doubt doth put the light of knowledge out. ↗

— William Blake

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while the scientist sees everything that happens in one point of space, the poet feels everything that happens in one point of time. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

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It is a good principle in science not to believe any 'fact'---however well attested---until it fits into some accepted frame of reference. Occasionally, of course, an observation can shatter the frame and force the construction of a new one, but that is extremely rare. Galileos and Einsteins seldom appear more than once per century, which is just as well for the equanimity of mankind. ↗

— Arthur C. Clarke

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We understand more than we know. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

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Honor is for the living. Dead is dead. ↗

— Drew Karpyshyn

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