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In science, "fact" can only mean "confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent." I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.
Stephen Jay Gould 
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Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.
Jacques Yves Cousteau
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Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.
Edmund Hillary
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It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.
Wernher von Braun
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There was no "before" the beginning of our universe, because once upon a time there was no time.
John D. Barrow
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If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos.
Robert Quillen
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Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.
Wilhelm Reich
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