I've lost my faith in science.
Religion and science look at reality differently.
There's a lot of interesting words, nomenclatures, in science.
The man of science is a poor philosopher.
The heart of science is measurement.
Science is but an image of the truth.
Science is nothing but perception.
I don't know anything about science.
I'm very into science-fantasy, that kind of swordfights and magic and technology thing.
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