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Science explained people, but could not understand them. ↗

— E.M. Forster

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

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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I challenge you to find a more innocuous sentence containing the words sperm, suction, swallow, and any homophone of seaman. And then call me up on the homophone and read it to me. ↗

— Mary Roach

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Upon surrendering with his rocket team to the Americans in 1945: "We knew that we had created a new means of warfare, and the question as to what nation, to what victorious nation we were willing to entrust this brainchild of ours was a moral decision more than anything else. We wanted to see the world spared another conflict such as Germany had just been through, and we felt that only by surrendering such a weapon to people who are guided by the Bible could such an assurance to the world be best secured. ↗

— Wernher von Braun

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It was here that the thaum, hitherto believed to be the smallest possible particle of magic, was succesfully demonstrated to be made up of /resons/ (Lit.: 'Thing-ies') or reality fragments. Currently research indicates that each reson is itself made up of a combination of at least five 'flavours', known as 'up', 'down', 'sideways', 'sex appeal' and 'peppermint'. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

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We make versions, and true versions make worlds. ↗

— Nelson Goodman

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It is interesting to wonder whether taxonomists of the future may regret the way our generation messed around with genomes. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

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It was as unsatisfying as a handjob from someone wearing an oven mitt. ↗

— Paul Di Filippo

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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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