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It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of

It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment. – Galileo Galilei

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In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. – Galileo Galilei

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Infinities and indivisibles transcend our finite understanding, the former on account of their magnitude, the latter because of their smallness; Imagine what they are when combined. – Galileo Galilei

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Pure phenomenology claims to be the science of pure phenomena. This concept of the phenomenon, which was developed under various names as early as the eighteenth century without being clarified, is what we shall have to deal with first of all. – Edmund Husserl

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Learn about the world, the way it works, any kind of science and anthropology, its really an interesting place we live in. Evolution is a really fantastic idea, even more than the idea of God I think. – Randy Newman

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I used to think information was destroyed in black hole. This was my biggest blunder, or at least my biggest blunder in science. – Stephen Hawking

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