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Just after World War II, this country led the world in science by

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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One thing that being a scientist has taught me is that you can never be certain about anything. You never know the truth. You can only approach it and hope to get a bit nearer to it each time. You iterate towards the truth. You dont know it. – James Lovelock

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There is little evidence that our individual intelligence has improved through recorded history. – James Lovelock

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But in science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs. – Francis Darwin

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When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods. – Leon Battista Alberti

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In science fiction, you can also test out your own realities. – Theodore Sturgeon

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I am compelled to fear that science will be used to promote the power of dominant groups rather than to make men happy. – Bertrand Russell, Icarus, or the Future of Science, 1925

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