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"Science is a way to teach how something gets to be known;
what is not known; to what extent things ARE known (for nothing
is known absolutely); how to handle doubt and uncertainty; what
the rules of evidence are; how to think about things so that
judgments can be made; how to distinguish truth from fraud and
from show."
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Pretentious "science" such as Creationism is "a
claim based upon the stupidity of the author that some obvious
and correct fact, accepted and checked for years is, in fact,
false (these are the worse: no argument will convince the
idiot)."
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"When you have learned what an explanation really is, you
can then go on to more subtle questions."
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"The scientist has a lot of experience with ignorance and
doubt and uncertainty.... We take it for granted that it is
perfectly consistant to be unsure--- that it is possible to live
and NOT know. But I don't know whether everyone realizes that
this is true."
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"An ordinary fool isn't a faker; an honest fool is all
right. But a dishonest fool is terrible!"
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"The test of science is its ability to predict."
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"Know how to solve every problem that has been solved."
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