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Ralph Waldo Emerson All Science Quotes
The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves; most things, in fact, are better in the morning.
Lewis Thomas 
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A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.
Edward Teller
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Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.
George Bernard Shaw
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The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
Thomas Huxley
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I got the bill for my surgery. Now I know what those doctors were wearing masks for.
James H. Boren
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Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.
Margaret Mead
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Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.
Rene Descartes
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The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.
Lewis Thomas
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I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.
Jacques Yves Cousteau
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