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• Psychology is the science of the intellects, characters and behavior of animals including man.

  Edward Thorndike

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• If the idea does not seem absurd, not to hope.

  Albert Einstein

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• Politics is the science of who gets what, when, and why.

  Sidney Hillman

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• Life is and will ever remain an equation incapable of solution, but it contains certain known factors.

  Nikola Tesla

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• Rain slowly slides down the glass as if the night is crying.

  Patricia Cornwell

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• Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.

  E. M. Forster

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• People must understand that science is inherently neither a potential for good nor for evil. It is a potential to be harnessed by man to do his bidding.

  Glenn T. Seaborg

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• In effect, what is a courtier? He is a man whom the misfortune of kings and people has placed betwixt the sovereign and truth to conceal it from his eyes.

  Jean le Rond d'Alembert

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• Maths is the purest science in that you don’t need any test tubes or animal testing to do it. All the other sciences eventually boil down to maths, apart from biology, which boils down to soup.

  Guy Browning

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• Intravenous injections of extract from dog’s pancreas, removed from seven to ten weeks after ligation of the ducts, invariably exercises a reducing influence upon the percentage sugar of the blood and the amount of sugar excreted in the urine … the extent and duration of the reduction varies directly with the amount of extract injected.

  Frederick Banting

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• Insulin is not a cure for diabetes; it is a treatment. It enables the diabetic to burn sufficient carbohydrates, so that proteins and fats may be added to the diet in sufficient quantities to provide energy for the economic burdens of life.

  Frederick Banting

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• No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit.

  Frederick Banting

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• ‘Scientific whaling’ is like the prostitution of the profession: using the name of science for a totally bogus purpose.

  Hal Whitehead

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• The physics of motion provides one of the clearest examples of the counter-intuitive and unexpected nature of science.

  Lewis Wolpert

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• Science creates the future without knowing what the future will be. If scientists knew tomorrow’s discovery they would make it.

  Solly Zuckerman

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• The social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.

  Peter Ustinov

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• Imagination is as vital to any advance in science as learning and precision are essential for starting points.

  Percival Lowell

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• Science is beginning to catch up with global health problems.

  William Foege

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• People blame science. Shit, man, people shouldn’t blame science. People should blame people.

  Seanan McGuire

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• Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.

  Stephen Hawking

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