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Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory wa

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

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In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them. – Thomas Huxley

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History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. – Thomas Huxley

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I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of it as a process of evolution intelligible to the young. – Thomas Huxley

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English is necessary as at present original works of science are in English. I believe that in two decades times original works of science will start coming out in our languages. Then we can move over like the Japanese. – Abdul Kalam

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Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century. – Bertrand Russell

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Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time. – Doris Lessing

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I would love to photograph Stephen Hawking. I am just fascinated by science, I really am. – Helena Christensen

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Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself. – Samuel Johnson

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