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Description
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Value
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Book of Science 1
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“What do you believe? And how much are you willing to risk on that belief? Would you risk your existence, and the existence of your species, on a hunch? A whim? The word of a prophet a thousand years dead?”
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45,000§
(90,000§ for Scientist empires)
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Book of Science 2
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“The survival of a species is about managing risk. The more you know about the universe, and the more you know about yourself and your own capabilities, the better you can calculate the risk yourself.”
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45,000§
(90,000§ for Scientist empires)
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Book of Science 3
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“Knowledge can be obtained through a process of investigation, observation, the gathering of empirical data, reason, hypothesis, and the testing of the hypothesis.”
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45,000§
(90,000§ for Scientist empires)
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Book of Science 4
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“Anything else is a guess. You might be good at guessing- but one wrong guess, at any time, can doom your species.”
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45,000§
(90,000§ for Scientist empires)
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Book of Science 5
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“Was it prophets and mystics who gave us electricity, antibiotics, modern signatation, aerospace science, and digital timepieces? No. It was those who proceeded rationally, building on the work of others to create new wonders.”
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45,000§
(90,000§ for Scientist empires)
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Book of Science 6
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“That is why we proceed only from what we know, and why we constantly test what we believe to be true. We are rigorous with the truth, and ruthless.”
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45,000§
(90,000§ for Scientist empires)
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Book of Science 7
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“The universe is no place for amateurs. Learn all you can, abolish your prejudices, and then act.”
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45,000§
(90,000§ for Scientist empires)
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Book of Science 8
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“The Grox are an experiment that has not yet run its course.”
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45,000§
(90,000§ for Scientist empires)
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Book of Science 9
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“The Grox are a machine race that guard the center of the galaxy against all life-forms. It is not known whether their ultimate objective is to prevent us from breaking in, or to prevent something else from breaking out.”
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45,000§
(90,000§ for Scientist empires)
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Book of Science 10
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“Some of our theoreticians suggest that the motivation for the Grox's actions may lie in the difference between machines and organic life, though there seems to be no way to test this hypothesis.”
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45,000§
(90,000§ for Scientist empires)
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