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Quote by Jean Rostand
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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Renown? Ive already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt. – Jean Rostand

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respect
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Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood – we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we. – Jean Rostand

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Faith
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There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person. – Elizabeth Moon

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Science is the topography of ignorance. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Medical Essays, 1883

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The mysteriousness and mystique of space is such, that science fiction attempts to tantalize you by telling you a story that could possibly be out there and thats the appeal of science fiction. – William Shatner

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Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question How? but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question Why? – Erwin Chargaff

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