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However, I believe that it would be difficult to have legitimate scientists agree to participate. ↗

— James Randi

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Pluto will always be a planet in my book. That’s because my book was published before Pluto was blacklisted by planetary scientists.
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— Jarod Kintz

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For scientists, reality is not optional. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

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Science was many things, Nadia thought, including a weapon with which to hit other scientists. ↗

— Kim Stanley Robinson

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...where were answers to the truly deep questions? Religion promised those, though always in vague terms, while retreating from one line in the sand to the next. Don't look past this boundary, they told Galileo, then Hutton, Darwin, Von Neumann, and Crick, always retreating with great dignity before the latest scientific advance, then drawing the next holy perimeter at the shadowy rim of knowledge. ↗

— David Brin

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Yet the effort to inform the public also encouraged responsible public discussion that succeeded in developing a consensus for the measured approach that many scientists supported. ↗

— Paul Berg

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Scientists are people who build the Brooklyn Bridge and then buy it. ↗

— William F. Buckley, Jr.

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Scientists disagree among themselves but they never fight over their disagreements. They argue about evidence or go out and seek new evidence. Much the same is true of philosophers, historians and literary critics. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

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A scientist is in a sense a learned small boy. There is something of the scientist in every small boy. Others must outgrow it. Scientists can stay that way all their lives. ↗

— George Wald

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Scientists under all forms of government must be able to participate fully in international efforts. ↗

— Kenneth G. Wilson

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