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"We in academia have it made, after all, especially scientists in academia. We are kind of at the top of the pecking order, and in order to maintain that illusion, which is what it is, we've got to not appear the fool. So the majority of the scientific community is a non-risk-taking group of people that live in a rather small reality and are in fact scared of things which seems to be outside that reality."

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Michael D. Swords, UFOs: The Secret History (2010)

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"Science does not therefore deal only with matter, no, not even its subtlest and obscurest forms. Such an idea is born merely of the idle spirit of the age. Science is a word which covers all forms of knowledge. It is exceedingly interesting to hear what chemists discover, and to see them finding their way through the densities of matter to its finer forms; but there are other kinds of knowledge than this, and it is not every one who restricts his (strictly scientific) desire for knowledge to experiments which are capable of being tested by the physical senses."

 

Mabel Collins, Light on the Path (1885)

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