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Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected. ↗

— David Hume

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The idea that one can go to the fossil record and expect to empirically recover an ancestor-descendant sequence, be it of species, genera, families, or whatever, has been, and continues to be, a pernicious illusion. ↗

— Gareth J. Nelson

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Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists; though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science. ↗

— Robert Graves

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The enforcement of the law cannot depend on the justice of a cause or one man's conscience. ↗

— Harold H. Greene

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