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A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. ↗

— Max Planck

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Indeed, scientific truth by consensus has had a uniformly bad history. ↗

— David Douglass

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Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena. ↗

— Wilhelm Reich

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At a time when science plays such a powerful role in the life of society, when the destiny of the whole of mankind may hinge on the results of scientific research, it is incumbent on all scientists to be fully conscious of that role, and conduct themselves accordingly. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

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Scientific thought and its creation is the common and shared heritage of mankind. ↗

— Abdus Salam

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The belief that the animals exist because God created them - and that he created them so we can better meet our needs - is contrary to our scientific understanding of evolution and, of course, to the fossil record, which shows the existence of non-human primates and other animals millions of years before there were any human beings at all. ↗

— Peter Singer

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But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance. ↗

— Frederick Soddy

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Scientific men can hardly escape the charge of ignorance with regard to the precise effect of the impact of modern science upon the mode of living of the people and upon their civilisation. ↗

— Frederick Soddy

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I grew up in a scientific world, the son of a neurosurgeon. ↗

— Eben Alexander

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Psychology more than any other science has had its pseudo-scientific no less than its scientific period. ↗

— James M. Baldwin

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