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A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
Max Planck
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A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
Max Planck
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Privacy about giving is counterproductive. There is solid scientific research showing that people are more likely to give if they can see that others are giving. The richest people, in particular, should be setting an example.
Peter Singer
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Most profoundly deaf people have speech that is very difficult to understand.


Richard Masur
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The religion I know most about, which is the Christian one, would simply say that it's not really for one man or woman to know fully and to understand the nature of our brief human existence.
Sebastian Faulks
We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
Carl Sagan
The fictional character with whom I most profoundly identified was Yossarian in Catch-22. Always did, still do.
Neil Cross
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Most of us who become experimental physicists do so for two reasons; we love the tools of physics because to us they have intrinsic beauty, and we dream of finding new secrets of nature as important and as exciting as those uncovered by our scientific heroes.
Luis Walter Alvarez
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The truth is, bad things don't affect us as profoundly as we expect them to. That's true of good things, too. We adapt very quickly to either.
Daniel Gilbert
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When we human beings hypothesize that a law of nature holds - even temporarily or situationally - we are creating an idea, but we are also making a hypothesis about how nature behaves, whose truth or usefulness has nothing to do with what we know or believe.
Lee Smolin
Our idea of nature is increasingly being determined by scientific developments. And they have become decisive for our image of reality.
Thom Mayne
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I didn't know anything about movies or movie stars or the Academy or anything. I was just a blank sheet of paper. I was totally ignorant of all that stuff. I never went to the movies, didn't know anything about the movies.
Mary Badham
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Scientific experiments are expensive, and people are entitled to know about them if they want to. I think it is very difficult to convey ideas.
Lisa Randall
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One of the most powerful scientific tools ever invented is the telephone.


John C. Mather
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Opinions differ most when there is least scientific warrant for having any.


Daisy Bates
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I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.


Clarence Darrow
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Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.


Benjamin Franklin
To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.
Plutarch
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We wanted a pet food based on sound scientific principles and truth, not marketing hype.


Dick Van Patten
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I don't know - it's a bit of a mystery of how things come about when they do. I don't have a scientific explanation for it. Sometimes when you're writing a song, you don't know where you're going.
Robbie Robertson
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