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Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved o

Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose whatsoever in view. – Max Planck

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Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve. – Max Planck

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Nature
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Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question, the same for every one of us. Science has no answer to it. – Max Planck

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Science
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Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: Ye must have faith. – Max Planck

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Faith
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I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could – with 100 per cent certainty – know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were. – Hans Blix

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Knowledge

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise. – Samuel Johnson

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Knowledge

Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution it finds itself changed from one day to the next. – Jean Piaget

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Knowledge

How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when theres no help in the truth. – Sophocles

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Knowledge

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This Bush administration has a growing credibility gap, maybe even a credibility chasm, on environmental policy. The President has lost the trust of the American people when it comes to the environment. – Jim Jeffords

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Agressive music can only shock you once. Afterwards its impact declines. Its inevitable. – Brian Eno

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Nothing fails like success because we dont learn from it. We learn only from failure. – Kenneth Ewart Boulding

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