"Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines."
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"Life would be tragic if it weren't funny."
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"As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress."
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"If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted"
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"The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself."
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"There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance."
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"The simple fact is that the world is not paying for the services the forests provide. At the moment, they are worth more dead than alive-for soya, for beef, for palm oil and for logging, feeding the demand from other countries. ... I think we need to be clear that the drivers of rainforest destruction do not originate in the rainforest nations, but in the more developed countries which, unwittingly or not, have caused climate change."
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"No Geologist worth anything is permanently bound to a desk or laboratory, but the charming notion that true science can only be based on unbiased observation of nature in the raw is mythology. Creative work, in geology and anywhere else, is interaction and synthesis: half-baked ideas from a bar room, rocks in the field, chains of thought from lonely walks, numbers squeezed from rocks in a laboratory, numbers from a calculator riveted to a desk, fancy equipment usually malfunctioning on expensive ships, cheap equipment in the human cranium, arguments before a road cut."
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"The seeds of great discoveries are constantly floating around us, but they only take root in minds well-prepared to receive them."
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"Even when all is known, the care of a man is not yet complete, because eating alone will not keep a man well; he must also take exercise. For food and exercise, while possessing opposite qualities, yet work together to produce health."
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"Looking closer can make something beautiful"
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"He who sees things grow from the beginning will have the best view of them."
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"Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings."
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"Moving in space, the atoms originally were individual units, but inevitable they began to collide with each other, and in cases where their shapes were such as to permit them to interlock, they began to form clusters. Water, air, fire, and earth, these are simply different clusters of the changeless atoms."
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"Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change."
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"Truth is not by nature free - nor error servile - but that its production is thoroughly imbued with relations of power."
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"The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers."
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"Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite."
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"Man's history has been graven on the rock of Egypt, stamped on the brick of Assyria, enshrined in the marble of the Parthenon-it rises before us a majestic presence in the piled up arches of the Coliseum-it lurks an unsuspected treasure amid the oblivious dust of archives and monasteries-it is embodied in all the looms of religions, of races, of families."
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"To sum up all, let it be known that science and religion are two identical words. The learned do not suspect this, no more do the religious. These two words express the two sides of the same fact, which is the infinite. Religion-Science, this is the future of the human mind."
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