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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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“There is scarcely any part of science or any thing in nature, which those impostors and blasphemers of science, called priests, as well as Christians and Jews, have not, at some time or other, perverted, or sought to pervert to the purpose of superst”

Thomas Paine quotes (English born American Writer and political pamphleteer, whose 'Common Sense' and 'Crisis' papers were important influences on the American Revolution. 1737-1809)

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“Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself”

Edwin Land quotes

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“A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others”

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

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“In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken', and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen”

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

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“I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true.”

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

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“Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.”

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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“Science may have found a cure for most evils, but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all--the apathy of human beings.”

Helen Keller quotes (American Author and Educator who was blind and deaf. 1880-1968)

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“In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality”

Mary McCarthy quotes (American novelist and critic,1912-1989)

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“In those parts of the world where learning and science has prevailed, miracles have ceased; but in those parts of it as are barbarous and ignorant, miracles are still in vogue”

Ethan Allen quotes

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“There is no patriotic art and no patriotic science”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quotes (German Playwright, Poet, Novelist and Dramatist. 1749-1832)

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