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People wonder why the novel is the most popular form of literature; people wonder why it is read more than books of science or books of metaphysics. The reason is very simple; it is merely that the novel is more true than they are. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

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Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice. ↗

— Michael Crichton

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A philosopher once said, "It is necessary for the very existence of science that the same conditions always produce the same results." Well, they don't! ↗

— Richard P. Feynman

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Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it. ↗

— Richard P. Feynman

#sex #science

How inappropriate to call this planet "Earth," when it is clearly "Ocean. ↗

— Arthur C. Clarke

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The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence. ↗

— Nikola Tesla

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I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#debt #deficit-spending #government #loans #political-science

We are a way for the cosmos to know itself. ↗

— Carl Sagan

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God does not play dice with the universe. ↗

— Albert Einstein

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The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it. ↗

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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