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Quote by John Burroughs
Science has done more for the development of western civilization

Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years. – John Burroughs

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A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying. – John Burroughs

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The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. – John Burroughs

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great
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For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice — no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service. – John Burroughs

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Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science. – Edwin Powell Hubble, The Nature of Science, 1954

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You have no time to do the science if youre talking to the media. – James Hansen

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The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them. – William Lawrence Bragg

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I wanted to have a political career. I thought studying political science would be the best way to achieve it. – Bianca Jagger

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And anyway, its only movies. to stop me I think theyll ahve to shoot me in the head. – Ridley Scott

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