“ Galileo was no idiot. Only an idiot could believe that science requires martyrdom - that may be necessary in religion, but in time a scientific result will establish itself. ”
- David Hilbert- Copy
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“ Darwin's theory of common descent does for biology what Galileo did for the planets. It was laid out in a book written for the general reader, the only bestseller to change man's conception of himself. An idea put forward in 1859 is still the cement that binds the marvellous discoveries of today… ”
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“ A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day… ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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