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When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion. ↗

— Carl Sagan

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Another curious aspect of the theory of evolution is that everybody thinks he understands it. ↗

— Jacques Monod

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If a conclusion is not poetically balanced, it cannot be scientifically true. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

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I never read to kill time. Killing time is like killing someone's wife or a child. There is nothing more precious for me than time. ↗

— Stanisław Lem

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Beware At war Or at peace, More people die Of unenlightened self-interest Than of any other disease ↗

— Octavia E. Butler

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Never fire a laser at a mirror. ↗

— Larry Niven

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We are built to be effective animals, not happy ones. ↗

— Robert Wright

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Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information; it is a creative human activity. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

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[...] we have in our treatise a series of fifty-seven examinations, almost exclusively of injuries of the human body forming a group of observations furnishing us with the earliest known nucleus of fact regarding the anatomy, physiology and pathology of the human body. Crude and elementary as they are, the method by which they were collected was scientific, and these observations, together with the diagnoses and the explanatory commentary in the ancient glosses, form the oldest body of science now extant. ↗

— James Henry Breasted

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There ain't no sky,' said one [boy]. But what is it that ain't?' asked the other. ↗

— J.T. Fraser

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