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- Rise
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Once
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- Nov 07, 2020
We pass through this world but once.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown.
- Dangerous
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.
- Critics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This claim is rhetorical nonsense.
- Establishing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The more important the subject and the closer it cuts to the bone of our hopes and needs, the more we are likely to err in establishing a framework for analysis.
- Extended
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- Nov 07, 2020
Look in the mirror, and don't be tempted to equate transient domination with either intrinsic superiority or prospects for extended survival.
- Lies
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- Nov 07, 2020
The proof of evolution lies in those adaptations that arise from improbable foundations.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I dreamed of becoming a scientist, in general, and a paleontologist, in particular, ever since the Tyrannosaurus skeleton awed and scared me.
- Enemy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Death is the ultimate enemy - and I find nothing reproachable in those who rage mightily against the dying of the light.
- Motto
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love the wry motto of the Paleontological Society, meant both literally and figuratively, for hammers are the main tool of our trade: Frango ut patefaciam - I break in order to reveal.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020