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It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the th

It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of. – Jean Rostand

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A body of work such as Pasteurs is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in. – Jean Rostand

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When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it wont one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic. – Jean Rostand

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I have seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve. – Charles Lindbergh

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Science in the modern world has many uses its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Economics has never been a science – and it is even less now than a few years ago. – Paul Samuelson

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