5 (number) - Science

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  • The atomic number of boron.
  • The number of appendages on most starfish, which exhibit pentamerism.
  • The most destructive known hurricanes rate as Category 5 on the Saffir–Simpson Hurricane Scale.
  • The most destructive known tornadoes rate an F-5 on the Fujita scale.

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    “Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!”
    —Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850)

    “You are all fundamentalists with a top dressing of science. That is why you are the stupidest of conservatives and reactionists in politics and the most bigoted of obstructionists in science itself. When it comes to getting a move on you are all of the same opinion: stop it, flog it, hang it, dynamite it, stamp it out.”
    —George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

    “We said that the history of mankind depicts man; in the same way one can maintain that the history of science is science itself.”
    —Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)