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I have no patience with the hypothesis occasionally expressed, and often implied, especially in tales written to teach children to be good, that babies are born pretty much alike, and that the sole agencies in creating differences between boy and boy, and man and man, are steady application and moral effort. It is in the most unqualified manner that I object to pretensions of natural equality. The experiences of the nursery, the school, the University, and of professional careers, are a chain of proofs to the contrary.

-- Francis Galton, Hereditary Genius

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional.
Oscar Wilde

Intellectual rigor annoys people because it interferes with the pleasure they derive from allowing their wishes to be fathers to their thoughts ...
G. F. Wills

When I lectured on the mind-body problem in India and was assured by ... members of my audience that my views must be mistaken, because they personally had existed in their earlier lives as frogs or elephants, etc., I did not think, "Here is evidence for an alternative world view" or even "Who knows, perhaps they are right". And my insensitivity was much more than mere cultural provincialism: Given what I know about how the world works, I could not regard their views as serious candidates for truth.

J. R. Searle

The plural of anecdote is not data.

Dr. Rose Mary Webb

Science is not a matter of opinion; it is a question of data.

"The Civil Heretic"
NICHOLAS DAWIDOF
Published: March 25, 2009 New York Times Magazine

"What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.

Christopher Hitchens

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"I Need an A"

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The Sound of Science

The Politics of Science

Skeptical Music