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It is the last lesson of modern science, that the highest simplicity of structure is produced, not by few elements, but by the highest complexity.

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The crew of the shuttle Columbia did not return safely to Earth; yet we can pray that all are safely home.

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Brutes by their natural instinct have produced many discoveries, whereas men by discussion and the conclusions of reason have given birth to few or none.

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Science is a way to not fool ourselves.

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Mr. Lyell's system of geology is just half the truth, and no more. He affirms a great deal that is true, and he denies a great deal which is equally true; which is the general characteristic of all systems not embracing the whole truth.

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An organized product of nature is that in which all the parts are mutually ends and means.

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There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

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But what is classification but the perceiving that these objects are not chaotic, and are not foreign, but have a law which is also the law of the human mind?

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The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man.

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As Arkwright and Whitney were the demi-gods of cotton, so prolific Time will yet bring an inventor to every plant. There is not a property in nature but a mind is born to seek and find it.

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The sceptic will say, 'It may well be true that this system of equations is reasonable from a logical standpoint, but this does not prove that it corresponds to nature.' You are right, dear sceptic. Experience alone can decide on truth.

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If you are only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you. You become a crotchety old person convinced that nonsense is ruling the world. (There is, of course, much data to support you.) But every now and then, a new idea turns out to be on the mark, valid and wonderful. If you are too much in the habit of being skeptical about everything, you are going to miss or resent it, and either way you will be standing in the way of understanding and progress.

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To have great poets, there must be great audiences.

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The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants.

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Philosophy begins with wonder.

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Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

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These earthly godfathers of Heaven's lights, that give a name to every fixed star, have no more profit of their shining nights than those that walk and know not what they are.

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Science can never solve one problem without raising ten more problems.

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We have no evidence whatsoever that the soul perishes with the body.

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The modern naturalist must realize that in some of its branches his profession, while more than ever a science, has also become an art.

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