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“Dr. Mitalipov, 52, has shaken the field of genetics by perfecting a version of the world’s tiniest surgery:”
― Anonymous

“religion and science are engaged in a kind of war: a war for understanding, a war about whether we should have good reasons for what we accept as true.”
― Jerry A. Coyne, Faith Versus Fact: Why Science and Religion Are Incompatible

“What distinguishes knowledge is not certainty but evidence.”
― Jerry A. Coyne, Faith Versus Fact: Why Science and Religion Are Incompatible

“Very little in nature is detectable by unaided human senses.”
― David Deutsch, The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World

“This is what we can achieve when, as Feynman said, we keep learning more about how not to fool ourselves.”
― David Deutsch, The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World

“Yet, over time, the conclusions that science has drawn have become ever truer to reality.”
― David Deutsch, The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World

“Its quest for good explanations corrects the errors, allows for the biases and misleading perspectives, and fills in the gaps.”
― David Deutsch, The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World