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“False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.”

Charles Darwin quotes (English Naturalist and Author of the theory of evolution by natural selection. 1809-1882)

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“To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.”

Albert Einstein quotes (German born American Physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity. Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921. 1879-1955)

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“Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.”

Konrad Lorenz quotes (Austrian Zoologist, 1903-1989)

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“No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.”

Jacob Bronowski quotes

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“If we are going to teach creation science as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction.”

Judith Hayes quotes

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“If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?”

Dr. Carl Sagan quotes (American Astronomer, Writer and Scientist, 1934-1996)

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“A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.”

Charles Darwin quotes (English Naturalist and Author of the theory of evolution by natural selection. 1809-1882)

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“Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.”

Dr. Carl Sagan quotes (American Astronomer, Writer and Scientist, 1934-1996)

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“We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.”

Charles Darwin quotes (English Naturalist and Author of the theory of evolution by natural selection. 1809-1882)

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“As long as there are entrenched social and political distinctions between sexes, races, or classes, there will be forms of science whose main function is to rationalize and legitimize these distinctions”

Elizabeth Fee quotes

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“The great tragedy of Science: the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact”

Thomas Henry Huxley quotes (English Biologist, He was an advocate of Darwin's natural selection theory and named the phylum Coelenterata (Jellyfish). 1825-1895)

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