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False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for t

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

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What a book a devils chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature! – Charles Darwin

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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science. – Charles Darwin

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If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin. – Charles Darwin

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The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer. Indeed the measure of our intellectual maturity, one philosopher suggests, is our capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers to better problems. – G.W. Allport, Becoming, 1955

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Just after World War II, this country led the world in science by every way you could measure it, yet the number of scientists was a tiny proportion of what it is now. – James Lovelock

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Im mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror. – Sarah Zettel

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Science never solves a problem without creating ten more. – George Bernard Shaw

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