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How thoroughly it is ingrained in mathematical science that every

How thoroughly it is ingrained in mathematical science that every real advance goes hand in hand with the invention of sharper tools and simpler methods which, at the same time, assist in understanding earlier theories and in casting aside some more complicated developments. – David Hilbert

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If one were to bring ten of the wisest men in the world together and ask them what was the most stupid thing in existence, they would not be able to discover anything so stupid as astrology. – David Hilbert

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Galileo was no idiot. Only an idiot could believe that science requires martyrdom – that may be necessary in religion, but in time a scientific result will establish itself. – David Hilbert

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The further a mathematical theory is developed, the more harmoniously and uniformly does its construction proceed, and unsuspected relations are disclosed between hitherto separated branches of the science. – David Hilbert

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Theory helps us bear our ignorance of facts. – George Santayana, The Sense of Beauty, 1896

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The quantum is that embarrassing little piece of thread that always hangs from the sweater of space-time. Pull it and the whole thing unravels. – Fred Alan Wolfe, Star Wave: Mind Consciousness of Quantum Physics, 1984

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Ive tried to be a straight scientist doing the science and reporting it as best I can. – James Hansen

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I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time. – Octavia Butler

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