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“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.”
— Carl Sagan
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“If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non-working cat.”
— Douglas Adams
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“Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.”
— Madame Curie
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“Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a re-creation of her.”
— Jacob Bronowski
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“Knowledge comes by taking things apart, but wisdom comes by putting things together.”
— John A. Morrison
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“The formulation of a problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill.”
— Albert Einstein
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“Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.”
— Richard Feynman
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“We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universe, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.”
— Charles Darwin
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“The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion.”
— Arnold H. Glasow
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“The greatest thing about being a scientist is you never have to grow up.”
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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After a girl told him she wants to be a scientist when she grows up.
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http://imgur.com/WjwvcOD
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“We're made of star stuff.”
— Carl Sagan
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pa1ImgOcOPM&t=6m18s
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“I’m going to go down getting my data. That’s the only reason I chase. It’s for the data.”
— Tim Samaras
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http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2013/11/biggest-storm/d...
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“This console here was the best part of my life. And I spent almost 10 years at this console. It is my life, it will always be my life. And I will never leave it behind.”
— Gene Kranz
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“Back off man, I'm a scientist.”
— Peter Venkman
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEbSABWJiJc
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“Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.”
— H. L. Mencken
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“Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.”
— Thomas Carlyle
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“Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.”
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.”
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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“No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right a single experiment can prove me wrong.”
— Albert Einstein
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“In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.”
— Yogi Berra
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“Life is not an exact science, it is an art.”
— Samuel Butler
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“It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.”
— Edouard Manet
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“There can be no truce between science and religion.”
— John B. S. Haldane
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“A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.”
— George Bernard Shaw
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“The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.”
— Ray Bradbury
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