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Quote by George Eliot
Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a char

Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive. – George Eliot

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One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymens miseries is to go and look at their pleasures. – George Eliot

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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. What do we live for if not to make the world less difficult for each other? – George Eliot

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Carl took on the military-industrial complex. He campaigned around the world for an end to the production of weapons of mass destruction. To him it was a perversion of science. – Ann Druyan

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One would have to have completely forgotten the history of science so as to not remember that the desire to know nature has had the most constant and the happiest influence on the development of mathematics. – Henri Poincare

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I have an idealistic view of science as a liberalising and progressive force for humanity. – Paul Nurse

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As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss. – Noam Chomsky

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I think my father would have liked to have been an artist, actually. But I think he didnt quite have perhaps the drive or, I dont know, I mean he had a family to bring up I suppose. – David Hockney

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As a child, I was more afraid of tetanus shots than, for example, Dracula. – Dave Barry

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