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Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson 
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Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.
Jean Rostand
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The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.
Albert Einstein
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Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.
Martin Henry Fischer
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The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.
Paul Valery
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Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
Thomas Huxley
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Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.
Thomas Huxley
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