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Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly. The fundamental conceptions of psychology are practically very clear to us, but theoretically they are very confused, and one easily makes the obscurest assumptions in this science without realizing, until challenged, what internal difficulties they involve. ↗

— William James

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..the happy hum of humanity. ↗

— Arthur C. Clarke

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It is your duty,' he said, 'to recover your country not by gold but by the sword. You will be fighting with all you love before your eyes: the temples of the gods, your wives and children, the soil of your native land scarred with the ravages of war, and everything which honor and truth call upon you to defend, or recover, or avenge. ↗

— Livy

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Science is a philosophy of discovery. Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance. ↗

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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We make versions, and true versions make worlds. ↗

— Nelson Goodman

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The greatest obstacle to progress in science is the illusion of knowledge. ↗

— Professor Mike Disney Cardiff University

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The positivists have a simple solution: the world must be divided into that which we can say clearly and the rest, which we had better pass over in silence. But can anyone conceive of a more pointless philosophy, seeing that what we can say clearly amounts to next to nothing? If we omitted all that is unclear, we would probably be left completely uninteresting and trivial tautologies. ↗

— Werner Heisenberg

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We are the only species on the planet, so far as we know, to have invented a communal memory stored neither in our genes nor in our brains. The warehouse of this memory is called the library ↗

— Carl Sagan

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So strong was the preconception of absolute space and time in the scientific mentality of those days, that Lorentz did not realize the grand transcendence of what he had discovered, and contented himself with remodeling the edifice of Physics -- instead of rebuilding it with a new foundation. ↗

— Felix Alba-Juez

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A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

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