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All science is either physics or stamp collecting. - Ernest Ruther

All science is either physics or stamp collecting. – Ernest Rutherford

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The energy produced by the breaking down of the atom is a very poor kind of thing. Anyone who expects a source of power from the transformation of these atoms is talking moonshine. – Ernest Rutherford

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New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure. – Herbert Hoover

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The time was not yet ripe for the growth of mathematical science among us, and any development that might have taken place in that direction was rudely stopped by the civil war. – Simon Newcomb

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Science

Malevolent criticisms will not disturb my peace of mind, I shall take no notice of them, however carefully they may be dressed up in the garb of science. – Sebastian Kneipp, 1889, translated from German, introduction to Thus Shalt Thou

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Science

I have to do more close research and fact checking for the science fiction. This is not however to say that writing good fantasy does not involve doing good research. – Sarah Zettel

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Though men now possess the power to dominate and exploit every corner of the natural world, nothing in that fact implies that they have the right or the need to do so. – Edward Abbey

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A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times. – Lord (John Emerich Edward Dalberg) Acton

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If everything is perfect, language is useless. This is true for animals. If animals dont speak, its because everythings perfect for them. If one day they start to speak, it will be because the world has lost a certain sort of perfection. – Jean Baudrillard

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Reality means you live until you die. The real truth is nobody wants reality. – Chuck Palahniuk

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