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Science

  • Evolutionary progress, the idea that there is a largest-scale trend in evolution of organisms and that the trend is toward improvement

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Famous quotes containing the word science:

    “Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.”
    —George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

    “Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.”
    —J.G. (James Graham)

    “As a science of the unconscious it is a therapeutic method, in the grand style, a method overarching the individual case. Call this, if you choose, a poet’s utopia.”
    —Thomas Mann (1875–1955)