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“We are just a speck, on a speck, orbiting a speck, in the corner of a speck, in the middle of nowhere.”

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Bill Nye, born on November 27, 1955, is an American educator renowned for his contributions to science education. He is best known for his work on the television show 'Bill Nye the Science Guy,' where he made complex scientific concepts accessible to the public and inspired a generation of young people to pursue science. more

“Round about the accredited and orderly facts of every science there ever floats a sort of dust-cloud of exceptional observations, of occurrences minute and irregular and seldom met with, which it always proves more easy to ignore than to attend to... Anyone will renovate his science who will steadily look after the irregular phenomena, and when science is renewed, its new formulas often have more of the voice of the exceptions in them than of what were supposed to be the rules.”

Looks Facts Science Easy Voice Minutes Mets Prove Rounds Clouds Observation Dust Supposed To Be Exception Formulas Exceptional Floats Orderly

Author:William James

“Science is the century-old endeavour to bring together by means of systematic thought the perceptible phenomena of this world into as thorough-going an association as possible. To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization. Science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgements of all kinds remain necessary.”

“I believe that the extraordinary should be pursued. But extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.”

Should Believe Science I Believe Evidence Claims Extraordinary Pursued

Book:Broca's brain: reflections on the romance of science

Source: Broca's brain: reflections on the romance of science

“When Kepler found his long-cherished belief did not agree with the most precise observation, he accepted the uncomfortable fact. He preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions, that is the heart of science.”

Heart Long Hard Facts Science Found Belief Integrity Illusion Agree Accepted Observation Uncomfortable Precise Hard Truths Kepler

Author:Carl Sagan

“In the Middle Ages people believed that the earth was flat, for which they had at least the evidence of their senses: we believe it to be round, not because as many as 1 percent of us could give physical reasons for so quaint a belief, but because modern science has convinced us that nothing that is obvious is true, and that everything that is magical, improbable, extraordinary, gigantic, microscopic, heartless, or outrageous is scientific.”

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