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You cannot separate passion from pathology any more than you can separate a person's spirit from his body. ↗

— Richard Selzer

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Energy is the universal language of Nature ↗

— Joey Lawsin

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[T]he nature of science is not that of a steady, linear progression toward the Truth, but rather a tortuous road, often characterized by dead ends and U-turns, and yet ultimately inching toward a better, if tentative, understanding of the natural world. ↗

— Massimo Pigliucci

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While science can be many things, above all it is a way for our mistake-making, illusion-prone, storytelling brains to compare different methods for describing nature. ↗

— Mike McRae

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It is the chief characteristic of the religion of science that it works. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

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National boundaries are not evident when we view the Earth from space. Fanatical ethnic or religious or national chauvinisms are a little difficult to maintain when we see our planet as a fragile blue crescent fading to become an inconspicuous point of light against the bastion and citadel of the stars. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#astronomy #conceit #earth #folly #human-nature

The more I learn about the universe, the less convinced I am that there's any sort of benevolent force that has anything to do with it, at all. ↗

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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Science Fiction: Any scientific acclaim that omits God. ↗

— Johnny Hart

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Discovery is always rape of the natural world. Always. ↗

— Michael Crichton

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Nothing is so dangerous to the progress of the human mind than to assume that our views of science are ultimate, that there are no mysteries in nature, that our triumphs are complete and that there are no new worlds to conquer. ↗

— Humphry Davy

#mind #science #nature