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Realism...has no more to do with reality than anything else.

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In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.

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Human science is an uncertain guess.

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Whereas in art nothing worth doing can be done without genius, in science even a very moderate capacity can contribute to a supreme achievement.

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Penicillin was indeed the product of accidental discovery, but the discovery was made, and the knowledge developed, because certain scientists had definite goals in mind. "Chance," Pastuer wrote, "favors only the prepared mind." The mind must be prepared not only by scientific training and technological know-how, but also by the awareness of social needs.

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Science when well-digested is nothing but good sense and reason.

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Every scientific fulfillment raises new questions; it asks to be surpassed and outdated.

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Someone has described science as an orderly arrangement of what, at the moment, seems to be facts.

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The ultimate security is your understanding of reality.

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If little else, the brain is an educational toy.

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