science

"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."

"La Ciencia en ningún momento está totalmente en lo cierto, pero rara vez está completamente equivocada y tiene en general mayores posibilidades de estar en lo cierto que las teorías no científicas."

"An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field."

"Wind is renewable. Turbines are not."

"Subjectivity is strange to Science, while Relativity is an objective part of it."

"Do not become someone else just because you are hurt. Be who you are & smile, it may solve, all problems you have got."

"We will restore science to its rightful place and wield technology's wonders to raise health care's quality and lower its cost."

"This seems charmingly paradoxical: scientists seek one truth but often voice many opinions; journalists often speak of many truths while voicing a uniform view."

"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."

"God is an ever receding pocket of scientific ignorance."

"those who escape hellhowevernever talk aboutitand nothing muchbothers themafterthat."

"As for what it's against - the story is against those who pervert and misuse religion, or any other kind of doctrine with a holy book and a priesthood and an apparatus of power that wields unchallengeable authority, in order to dominate and suppress human freedoms."

"Whether in the intellectual pursuits of science or in the mystical pursuits of the spirit, the light beckons ahead, and the purpose surging in our nature responds."

"The best place to start the evolution of the vertebrates is the imagination."

"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less."

"The more you delve into science, the more it appears to rely on faith."

"The important thing is to not stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery each day.—"Old Man's Advice to Youth: 'Never Lose a Holy Curiosity.'"LIFE Magazine (2 May 1955) p. 64"

"What goes up must come down."

"Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attibutable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century."

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