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“Every scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; next, they say it has been discovered before lastly, they say they always believed it.”

Louis Agassiz quotes (Swiss born American Geologist, Teacher and Naturalist, 1807-1873)

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“It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.”

Albert Einstein quotes (German born American Physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity. Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921. 1879-1955)

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“Science is built up of facts, as a house is built of stones; but an accumulation of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house”

Henri Poincar quotes

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“When Kepler found his long-cherished belief did not agree with the most precise observation, he accepted the uncomfortable fact. He preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions; that is the heart of science.”

Dr. Carl Sagan quotes (American Astronomer, Writer and Scientist, 1934-1996)

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“If we are going to teach creation science as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction.”

Judith Hayes quotes

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“There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be.”

Charles Pierce quotes (American Musical Actor and Comedian, famous for his female impersonations 1926-1999)

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“I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale.”

Marie Curie quotes (French Physicist, twice winner of the Nobel Prize, 1867-1934)

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“Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.”

Konrad Lorenz quotes (Austrian Zoologist, 1903-1989)

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“Creation science is an attempt to give credibility to Hebrew mythology by making people believe that the world's foremost biologists, paleontologists, and geologists are a bunch of incompetent nincompoops.”

Ron Peterson quotes

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“A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it”

Max Planck quotes (German theoretical Physicist who originated quantum theory, 1858-1947)

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“Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.”

Albert Einstein quotes (German born American Physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity. Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921. 1879-1955)

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