Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey.
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To pursue science is not to disparage the things of the spirit. In fact, to pursue science rightly is to furnish the framework on which the spirit may rise.
We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them.
We now witness the constructive work on a foundation that will endure through the ages. That foundation is the god of science - revealed to us in terms that will harmonize with our intelligence.
In nature, when you conduct science, it is the natural world that is the ultimate decider in what is true and what is not.
Science is the refusal to believe on the basis of hope.
Science is very vibrant. There are always new observations to be found. And it's all in the interest in challenging the authority that came before you. That's consistent with the punk rock ethos that suggests that you should not take what people say at face value.
Science is the pursuit of pure truth, and the systematizing of it.
Although scientists can often be as resistant to new ideas as anyone, the process of science ensures that, over time, good ideas and theories prevail.
Science is a wonderful discipline, to which we are deeply indebted.
Science is the search for truth, that is the effort to understand the world: it involves the rejection of bias, of dogma, of revelation, but not the rejection of morality.