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In my opinion, our health care system has failed when a doctor fails to treat an illness that is treatable. ↗

— Kevin Alan Lee

#government #health-care #health-care-system #humanism #medical

Science is the topography of ignorance. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

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Einstein said that if quantum mechanics were correct then the world would be crazy. Einstein was right - the world is crazy. ↗

— Daniel M. Greenberger

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The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space. ↗

— George Gordon Byron

#cosmology #eschatology #physics #science #stars

The paper does not provide the exact number of penises eaten by ducks, but the author says there have been enough over the years to prompt the coining of a popular saying: 'I better get home or the ducks will have something to eat. ↗

— Mary Roach

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Science without conscience is the soul's perdition. ↗

— François Rabelais

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What intrigued me more than anything else was finding out the way in which everything, all of creation - all of it! - was held together by invisible chemical bonds, and I found a strange, inexplicable comfort in knowing that somewhere, even though we couldn't see it in our own world, there was a real stability. ↗

— Alan Bradley

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Science is the poetry of reality. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

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But I try not to think with my gut. If I'm serious about understanding the world, thinking with anything besides my brain, as tempting as that might be, is likely to get me into trouble. ↗

— Carl Sagan

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The most accessible field in science, from the point of view of language, is astrophysics. What do you call spots on the sun? Sunspots. Regions of space you fall into and you don’t come out of? Black holes. Big red stars? Red giants. So I take my fellow scientists to task. He’ll use his word, and if I understand it, I’ll say, “Oh, does that mean da-da-da-de-da? ↗

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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