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Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.

Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.

by Thomas Henry Huxley Found in: Society Quotes,
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The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s and 1980s hundreds of millions of people will read more

The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s and 1980s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death...

by Paul Ehrlich Found in: Society Quotes,
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Scientific progress consists in the development of new concepts.

Scientific progress consists in the development of new concepts.

by Ernst Mayr Found in: Society Quotes,
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It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.

by Aesop Found in: Society Quotes,
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Science is facts. Just as houses are made of stones, so science is made of facts. But a pile of read more

Science is facts. Just as houses are made of stones, so science is made of facts. But a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science.

by Henri Poincare Found in: Society Quotes,
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Wherever we find orderly, stable systems in Nature, we find that they are hierarchically structured, for the simple reason that read more

Wherever we find orderly, stable systems in Nature, we find that they are hierarchically structured, for the simple reason that without such structuring of complex systems into sub-assemblies, there could be no order and stability- except the order of a dead universe filled with a uniformly distributed gas.

by Arthur Koestler Found in: Society Quotes,
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Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three read more

Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.

by Barbara Jordan Found in: Society Quotes,
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Barbarian invasions would be superfluous: we are our own Huns.

Barbarian invasions would be superfluous: we are our own Huns.

by Bertrand De Jouvenal Found in: Society Quotes,
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It is common to assume that human progress affects everyone- that even the dullest man, in these bright days, knows read more

It is common to assume that human progress affects everyone- that even the dullest man, in these bright days, knows more than any man of, say, the Eighteenth Century, and is far more civilized. This assumption is quite erroneous...The great masses of men, even in this inspired republic, are precisely where the mob was at the dawn of history. They are ignorant, they are dishonest, they are cowardly, they are ignoble. They know little if anything that is worth knowing, and there is not the slightest sign of a natural desire among them to increase their knowledge.

by H. L. Mencken Found in: Society Quotes,
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