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If I train the hardest, run the longest, go beyond what anyone else has the mental determination to do, I will be the winner.

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Martin Gardner

If all sentient beings in the universe disappeared, there would remain a sense in which mathematical objects and theorems would continue to exist even though there would be no one around to write or talk about them. Huge prime numbers would continue to be prime, even if no one had proved them prime.

Exist, Numbers, Prime, Science, Universe, Writing
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When reputable scientists correct flaws in an experiment that produced fantastic results, then fail to get those results when they repeat the test with flaws corrected, they withdraw their original claims. They do not defend them by arguing irrelevantly that the failed replication was successful in some other way, or by making intemperate attacks on whomever dares to criticize their competence.

Atheism, Defend, Successful, Test, Tests, Whomever

Debunking bad science should be constant obligation of the science community, even if it takes time away from serious research or seems to be a losing battle. One takes comfort from the fact there is no Gresham's laws in science. In the long run, good science drives out bad.

Bad, Community, Fact, Law, Long, Running

It is part of the pholosophic dullness of our time that there are millions of rational monsters walking about on their hind legs, observing the world through pairs of flexible little lenses, periodically supplying themselves with energy by pushing organic substances through holes in their faces, who see nothing fabulous whatever about themselves.

Fabulous, Faces, Pairs, See, Substances, Walking

There are, and always have been, destructive pseudo-scientific notions linked to race and religion; these are the most widespread and damaging. Hopefully, educated people can succeed in shedding light into these areas of prejudice and ignorance, for as Voltaire once said: 'Men will commit atrocities as long as they believe absurdities.

Believe, Destructive, Ignorance, Light, Men, Voltaire

There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.

Behinds, Differences, Geometrical, Geometry, Nothing
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