In 1860 the famous duel between T.H. Huxley and Bishop Wilberforce took place, and the wife of the bishop of Worcester is reported to have said this in reaction to hearing Darwin?s theory of evolution.
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If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
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When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
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Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.
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The uniformity of earth's life, more astonishing than its diversity, is accountable by the high probability that we derived, originally, from some single cell, fertilized in a bolt of lightning as the earth cooled.
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The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves; most things, in fact, are better in the morning.
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Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.
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Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.
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If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos.
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That theory is worthless. It isn't even wrong!
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Whenever anyone says, 'theoretically,' they really mean, 'not really.'
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Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.
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A satellite has no conscience.
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When you take stuff from one writer it's plagiarism; but when you take it from many writers, it's research.
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Anthropology demands the openmindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.
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I look forward to the day when a mongolian idiot, treated biochemically, becomes a successful geneticist.
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People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.
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We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.
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I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.
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We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.
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Science is not a sacred cow. Science is a horse. Don't worship it. Feed it.
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Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy but after a war it seems more like astrology.
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Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely for science is but one.
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The true science and study of man is man.
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Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
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