Okay, hotshots, name the sources of the following quotes about science:

1) “The universe is merely a fleeting idea in God’s mind—a pretty uncomfortable thought, particularly if you’ve just made a down payment on a house.”
2) “Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”
3) “A walk in the rain forest is a walk into the mind of God.”
4) “I abjure, curse, and detest the said errors and heresies, and generally every other error and sect contrary to the said Holy Church; and I swear that I will never more in future say, or assert anything, verbally or in writing, which may give rise to a similar suspicion of me.”
5) “The universe was dictated but not signed.”
6) “All are but parts of one stupendous whole,
/Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.”
7) “I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey.”
“It is absurd to deny the role of fantasy in even the strictest science.”

These come from Science Says: A Collection of Quotations on the History, Meaning and Practice of Science selected and edited by Rob Kaplan. Perhaps no other topic is as relevant to our lives today as science. We look to its practitioners and observers for insights into the nature of the universe.

Here then is an indispensable collection of the best that has been written and spoken about science from ancient times to today. Uttered by scientists, philosophers and (if you haven’t guessed by now) wits and wags, the passages in this handy volume are filled with wisdom and thought-provoking quotes.

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Guessed the attribution of the quotes? Here they are:

1) Woody Allen
2)Albert Einstein
3) Birute M. F. Galdikas
4) Galileo Galilei
5) Christopher Morley
6) Alexander Pope
7) Mark Twain
V. I. Lenin