“The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he's one who asks the right questions.”
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“Our task must be to free ourselves... by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and it's beauty.”
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“Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue.”
― Social Theory and Social Structure
― Social Theory and Social Structure
“He is one of those who has had the wilderness for a pillow, and called a star his brother. Alone. But loneliness can be a communion.”
― Markings
― Markings
“Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.”
― The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy
― The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy
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