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Science is a river which the explorer may encounter at any point along its course. He can follow it either to its source or to its delta or both.

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Science is the everlasting interrogation of Nature by Man.

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"Science" and "Scientific" have become overcharged terms because they have been given an arrogance (often by the scientists themselves) or a huckster quality (by mendacious modern advertising) or a magical quality (because the language has become an abracadabra to the layman).

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The history of science is not a spoil heap of accidental discoveries and random ideas. Rather it is like an archaeological dig in which a potsherd is meaningful in terms of the chronological layer in which it is found; i.e., of the culture in which it has its origins.

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The genealogy of scientific discovery is important because every scientist inherits so much from his predecessors. Science is evolutionary, depending upon the intermarriage of ideas. The family tree of a major scientific discovery is usually more impressively international than that of the most august royal house.

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One of the first signs of the beginnings of understanding is the wish to die. This life appears unbearable, another unattainable. One is no longer ashamed of wanting to die; one asks to be moved from the old cell, which one hates, to a new one, which one will only in time come to hate.
Franz Kafka

Peter Ritchie Calder

Peter Ritchie Calder

Born: July 1, 1906
Died: January 31, 1982 (aged 75)
Bio: Peter Ritchie Calder, Baron Ritchie-Calder was a Scottish socialist author, journalist and academic.

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