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It is interesting to note how many of the great scientific discoveries begin as myths. ↗

— Rollo May

#myth #science #science

I walked into adventure and adventure has given me blisters. ↗

— Andrea K. Höst

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The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when [Holmes] became a specialist in crime. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#crime #stage #science

It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#morbid #moriarty #science #sherlock #skull

If the history-deniers who doubt the fact of evolution are ignorant of biology, those who think the world began less than ten thousand years ago are worse than ignorant, they are deluded to the point of perversity. They are denying not only the facts of biology but those of physics, geology, cosmology, archaeology, history and chemistry as well. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

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Understanding requires insight. Insight must be anchored. ↗

— Brian Greene

#science #understanding #science

Oh juventud nunca dejes de pensar... ↗

— Albert Einstein

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Today the network of relationships linking the human race to itself and to the rest of the biosphere is so complex that all aspects affect all others to an extraordinary degree. Someone should be studying the whole system, however crudely that has to be done, because no gluing together of partial studies of a complex nonlinear system can give a good idea of the behavior of the whole. ↗

— Murray Gell-Mann

#science #systems #science

All that was required to measure the planet was a man with a stick and a brain. In other words, couple an intellect with some experimental apparatus and almost anything seems achievable. ↗

— Simon Singh

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The alternative to thinking in evolutionary terms is not to think at all. ↗

— Peter B. Medawar

#science #thinking #science