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There is something fascinating
about science. One gets such wholesome returns of conjectures out of such
trifling investment of fact.
-- Mark
Twain
Nothing is easier
than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be
true.
-- Demosthenes
The great tragedy
of Science -- the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas
Henry Huxley
Facts are stubborn
things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates
of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John
Adams
Still, a man hears
what he wants to hear, and disregards the rest.
-- Simon
& Garfunkle, The Boxer
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