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The discoverer of a new scientific truth does not gradually win over his opponents by converting them... What does happen is that his opponents gradually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with the idea from the beginning.
— Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck, Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers (1949)

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It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunnings achievements of science. The divorce of the two produces politicians without ideas and scientists without conscience.

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The great tragedy of science—the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

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We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question that divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct.

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Paleontologists Solve the Mystery of a Twisted Jawbone With Sideways Teeth

The jaw has this weird twist that drove us crazy trying to figure it out. We were scratching our heads over this for years, wondering if it was some kind of deformation. But at this point, we've got nine jaws from this animal, and they all have this twist, including the really, really well-preserved ones. So it's not a deformation, it's just the way the animal was made.

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We are made of starstuff. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.

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The task is not so much to see what no one has yet seen, but to think what nobody has yet thought about that which everybody sees.

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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. Its goal is not to arrive at immutable truths but to develop progressively better approximations of reality.

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It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and unexpected findings of science.

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