There is a lurking fear that some things are 'not meant' to be known, that some inquiries are too dangerous for human being to make.
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I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.
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A religion old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science, might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths. Sooner or later, such a religion will emerge.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.
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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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