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"Education should provide the skills to distinguish evidence from propaganda, probability from certainty, rational beliefs from superstitions, data from assertions, science from folklore, credibility from incredibility, theory from dogma."

[http://www.edweek.org/ew/vol-17/12hurd.h17]

"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought." [Albert Szent-Györgyi, The Scientist Speculates, 1962]

"We have not succeeded in answering all our problems. The answers we have found only serve to raise a whole set of new questions. In some ways we feel we are as confused as ever, but we believe we are confused on a higher level and about more important things."

[Sitert i Øksendal (1985).]

"precollege science courses have served as screening devices, filtering out all but the brightest and most motivated students. If you are good at memorizing jargon and formulas, you move on to the next level," ... "It is preparation for further schooling, not for real life."

[http://www.sciam.com/1999/1099issue/1099gibbs.html]

"The facts do not tell their own story; they must be cross-examined. They must be carefully analyzed, systematizied, compared and interpreted."

"These are my principles, and if you don't like them...well, I have others." Groucho Marx

"Ranges are for cattle, give me a number!" Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964

"Any number is better than no number." Dale Jorgenson, 1972.