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It’s like herding cats!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“It’s quite hard to persuade the scientific community to say, ‘Yes, we know something, this is true.’ Naomi Oreskes<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There’s so much yet to be unraveled …<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.” Thomas Huxley<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here is another timely quote for our times, from a great scientist in our history who was Black.

Black scientists have fought for their rights o education and their rightful place at the table of science. And white people need to keep listening, learning and acting more and more to dismantle systemic racism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Black lives matter. Black scientists matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.” George Washington Carver<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Our last favorite science quote for today, illustrating that science is universal …<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.” Louis Pasteur<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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