"The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an unproved theory -is it then a science or a faith? Belief in the theory of evolution is thus exactly parallel to belief in special creation - both are concepts which believers know to be true but neither, up to the present, has been capable of proof."

-- L. Harrison Matthews

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“Our Lord did not ask us to give up the things of earth, but to exchange them for better things.”
“Astronomy is perhaps the science whose discoveries owe least to chance, in which human understanding appears in its whole magnitude, and through which man can best learn how small he is.”
“No matter what you study, the thing that you know best is what you grew up with.”
“You can't have too much of everything, you must have a balance, that's very important.”
“I'm a big nerd. I geek out when I walk into Comic-Cons. This is like my heaven.”

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“The thing about nightmares was that you couldn't prepare for them. They sneaked up on you when you were most vulnerable.”
“Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.”
“The classification of facts and the formation of absolute judgments upon the basis of this classification-judgments independent of the idiosyncrasies of the individual mind-essentially sum up the aim and method of modern science. The scientific man has above all things to strive at self-elimination in his judgments, to provide an argument which is as true for each individual mind as for his own.”

Source : Karl Pearson (2007). “The Grammar of Science”, p.6, Cosimo, Inc.

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