"Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue."

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Source : Robert K. Merton (1973). “The Sociology of Science: Theoretical and Empirical Investigations”, p.265, University of Chicago Press

Robert K. Merton

#Science Quotes #Unqualified Quotes #Demand Quotes

“We went into darkness after being in daylight the whole time on the way to the Moon. And then we went into darkness. And we're in the shadow... of the Moon.”

Source : "In the Shadow of the Moon", www.imdb.com. 2007.
“Victory was never in doubt. Its cost was...What was in doubt, in all our minds, was whether there would be any of us left to dedicate our cemetery at the end, or whether the last Marine would die knocking out the last Japanese gun and gunner.”
“A long-term marriage has to move beyond chemistry to compatibility, to friendship, to companionship. It is certainly not that passion disappears, but that it is conjoined with other ways of love.”
“Despair is your friend in show business. I don't believe you can act if happiness is your lot. It's the ups that keep you living and the downs that mete out talent.”

Source : Ruth Gordon (1980). “Ruth Gordon, an open book”, Doubleday Books
“There is no more ethical group on this planet than ourselves.”
“We must powder our wigs; that is why so many poor people have no bread.”
“Taking mathematics from the beginning of the world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much the better half.”
“There were bars that began to have acoustic musicians play, it was 1970: Joni Mitchell, Jackson Browne, America, The Eagles, all that kind of stuff was popular. It was very easy for me to just kind of move in and be noticed.”

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