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“In 5 billion years, the expansion of the universe will have progressed to the point where all other galaxies will have receded beyond detection. Indeed, they will be receding faster than the speed ...”
“If time travel is possible, where are the tourists from the future?”
“For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.”
“Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.”
“Science is based on experiment, on a willingness to challenge old dogma, on an openness to see the universe as it really is. Accordingly, science sometimes requires courage - at the very least the ...”
“Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.”
“Science is a bit like the joke about the drunk who is looking under a lamppost for a key that he has lost on the other side of the street, because that's where the light is. It has no other choice.”
“Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and baseball when they are not preoccupied with science.”
“Nature composes some of her loveliest poems for the microscope and the telescope.”
“The way to find out about our place in the universe is by examining the universe and by examining ourselves - without preconceptions, with as unbiased a mind as we can muster.”
“DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music.”
“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder,...”
“So my antagonist said, "Is it impossible that there are flying saucers? Can you prove that it's impossible?" "No", I said, "I can't prove it's impossible. It's just very unlikely". At that he said,...”
“I am not afraid of a person who knows 10000 kicks. But I am afraid of a person who knows one kick but practices it for 10000 times.”
“Most institutions demand unqualified faith but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue.”
“Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.”
“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?”
“[we see that] science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one.”
“It would be better for us to have some doubts in an honest pursuit of truth, than it would be for us to be certain about something that was not true. ”
“The chief deficiency I see in the skeptical movement is its polarization: Us vs. Them the sense that we have a monopoly on the truth; that those other people who believe in all these stupid doctri...”
