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It was a shock to people of the nineteenth century when they discovered, from observations science had made, that many features of the biological world could be ascribed to the elegant principle of natural selection. – Michael Behe

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It is often said that science must avoid any conclusions which smack of the supernatural. – Michael Behe

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We are not inferring design to account for a black box, but to account for an open box. – Michael Behe

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A man from a primitive culture who sees an automobile might guess that it was powered by the wind or by an antelope hidden under the car, but when he opens up the hood and sees the engine he immediately realizes that it was designed. – Michael Behe

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Better to die in the pursuit of civilized values, we believed, than in a flight underground. We were offering a value system couched in the language of science. – John Charles Polanyi

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There is no national science just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is no longer science. – Anton Chekhov

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Science fiction has a way of letting you talk about where we are in the world and letting you be a bit of a pop philosopher without being didactic. – Brit Marling

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To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth. – Evelyn Fox Keller, Reflections on Gender and Science, 1995

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Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didnt happen. – Winston Churchill

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Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them. – B. R. Ambedkar

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