Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investigating. It's posing questions and coming up with a method. It's delving in. -Sally Ride -

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One thing in life is for certain, the more profoundly baffled you have been in your life, the more open your mind becomes to new ideas.

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Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is glorious– whether all that is profound– does not spring from disease of thought– from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect.

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A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. ― Charles Darwin

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Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.

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The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it. ― Neil deGrasse Tyson

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There is nothing so absurd that it cannot be believed as truth if repeated often enough.

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We should not be ashamed of not having answers to all questions yet... I'm perfectly happy staring somebody in the face saying, 'I don't know yet, and we've got top people working on it.' The moment you feel compelled to provide an answer, then you're doing the same thing that the religious community does: providing answers to every possible question.

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Kids are never the problem. They are born scientists. The problem is always the adults. They beat the curiosity out of kids. They outnumber kids. They vote. They wield resources. That's why my public focus is primarily adults. ― Neil deGrasse Tyson

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I think that I am among the few lucky ones who are exploiting complexity. Most people are unhappy with the emergence of complexity, they would prefer it if the world were very simple, but then it would be a doom for a cryptographer like myself.

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