"I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads." ― George Santayana Topic(s): Science Tags: believe, general More From George Santayana "Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others." "We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible." "To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman." More In Science "Science fiction has a way of letting you talk about where we are in the world and letting you be a bit of a pop philosopher without being didactic."― Brit Marling "Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense."― Thomas Huxley "In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2,000 previous years and given mankind greater powers over the forces of nature than the ancients ascribed to their gods."― John Boyd Orr