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Quote by Thomas Huxley
Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and en

Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth. – Thomas Huxley

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Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact. – Thomas Huxley

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Freedom and order are not incompatible… truth is strength… free discussion is the very life of truth. – Thomas Huxley

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Facts are not science — as the dictionary is not literature. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits? – Carl Sagan

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I like science fiction and physics, things like that. Planets being sucked into black holes, and the various vortexes that create possibility, and what happens on the other side of the black hole. To me its the microcosmic study of the macrocosmic universe in man, and thats why Im attracted to it. – Wesley Snipes

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Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldnt happen, but other planets. – Margaret Atwood

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The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Quotation and Originality,” Letters and Social Aims, 1876

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Pythagoras, Locke, Socrates — but pages might be filled up, as vainly as before, with the sad usage of all sorts of sages, who in his life-time, each was deemed a bore! The loftiest minds outrun their tardy ages. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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Stillness and action are relative, not absolute, principles. It is important to find a balance of yin and yang, not just in qigong, but in everyday life. In movement, seek stillness and rest. In rest, be mindful and attentive. – Ken Cohen

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