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Quote by Charles Darwin
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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A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. – Charles Darwin

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Life
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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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Nature
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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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The doubter is a true man of science; he doubts only himself and his interpretations, but he believes in science. – Claude Bernard

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Ive always felt that the human-centered approach to computer science leads to more interesting, more exotic, more wild, and more heroic adventures than the machine-supremacy approach, where information is the highest goal. – Jaron Lanier

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Science

Those theologians who are beginning to take the doctrine of creation very seriously should pay some attention to sciences story. – John Polkinghorne

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Science

Fudging the data in any way whatsoever is quite literally a sin against the holy ghost of science. Im not religious, but I put it that way because I feel so strongly. Its the one thing you do not ever do. Youve got to have standards. – James Lovelock

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Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. – George F. Will, Men at Work: The Craft of Baseball, 1990

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No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds. – John Ruskin

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A speech should not just be a sharing of information, but a sharing of yourself. – Ralph Archbold

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