Pseudoscience is embraced, it might be argued, in exact proportion as real science is misunderstood.
Carl Sagan in The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
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I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true.
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Pseudoscience speaks to powerful emotional needs that science often leaves unfulfilled. It caters to fantasies about personal powers we lack and long for.
Carl Sagan in The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
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One of the reasons for its success is that science has a built-in, error-correcting machinery at its very heart. Some may consider this an over broad characterization, but to me every time we exercise self-criticism, every time we test our ideas against the outside world, we are doing science. When we are self-indulgent and uncritical, when we confuse hopes and facts, we slide into pseudoscience and superstition.
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Evolutionary naturalism takes the inherent limitations of science and turns them into a devastating philosophical weapon: because science is our only real way of knowing anything, what science cannot know cannot be real.
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Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.
quote by Ernest Hemingway
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Woman's discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
quote by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service.
quote by Earl Nightingale
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Love is conditioned
Love for one is in proportion
To the influence you wield.
Concern for one is in proportion
To the identity you have.
Respect for one is in proportion
To the trust you have.
Don’t expect more than the due.
16.08.2006
poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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I think Douglas was a real one-off. He was so clever and so intelligent and so well read in real science that he could make science fiction work as well as it did. And just such fun to have around, he was just such a lovely man.
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Rocket science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty.
quote by John Carmack
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Hitting is an art, but not an exact science.
Politics is no exact science.
quote by Otto von Bismarck
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Politics is not an exact science.
quote by Otto von Bismarck
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Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
quote by Samuel Butler
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We get real results only in proportion to the real values we give.
quote by James Cash Penney
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All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation.
quote by Bertrand Russell
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The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have grown at a given moment. And if this is a correct view of freedom, our chief energy must be concentrated on achieving reform from within.
quote by Mahatma Gandhi
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All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.
quote by Gustave Flaubert
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In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
quote by Paul Dirac
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I do need to be told when I'm going wrong. No one's acting can be an exact, 100 percent science.
quote by Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
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