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| All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom. Albert Einstein Quotes |
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| Scientists were rated as great heretics by the church, but they were truly religious men because of their faith in the orderliness of the universe. Albert Einstein Quotes |
| Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. Albert Einstein Quotes |
| The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Albert Einstein Quotes |
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| Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler. Albert Einstein Quotes |
| The scientist who yields anything to theology, however slight, is yielding to ignorance and false pretenses, and as certainly as if he granted that a horse-hair put into a bottle of water will turn into a snake. H L Mencken Quotes |
| Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings. Helen Keller Quotes |
| Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under your observation in life. Marcus Aelius Aurelius Quotes |
| There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth. Madam Marie Curie Quotes |
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| The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it. Thomas Carlyle Quotes |
| There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact. Mark Twain Quotes |
| Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition. Adam Smith Quotes |
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| Science does not know its debt to imagination. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| Men are probably nearer the central truth in their superstitions than in their science. Henry David Thoreau Quotes |
| Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own. Bertrand Russell Quotes |
| Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed. Thomas Huxley Quotes |
| The effort to reconcile science and religion is almost always made, not by theologians, but by scientists unable to shake off altogether the piety absorbed with their mother's milk. H L Mencken Quotes |
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| "Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world." Archimedes Quotes |
| "There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere." Isaac Asimov Quotes |
| Though science can cause problems, it is not by ignorance that we will solve them. Isaac Asimov Quotes |
| When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes. W. H. Auden Quotes |
| The events of human life, whether public or private, are so intimately linked to architecture that most observers can reconstruct nations or individuals in all the truth of their habits from the remains of their public monuments or from their domestic relics. Archaeology is to social nature what comparative anatomy is to organized nature. A mosaic reveals an entire society, just as a skeleton of an ichthyosaur suggests an entire creation. Everything is deducible, everything is linked. The cause allows one to guess the effect, just as each effect allows one to reconstruct a cause. The scientist can resuscitate in this manner even the warts of ancient times. From this comes without doubt the prodigious interest that an architectural description can inspire when the writer's fantasy is faithful to its basic elements. Cannot each person reattach it to its past by rigorous deductions? And as for man, does not the past singularly resemble the future? Tell him what was and is this not almost always the same thing as telling him what will be? Honore de Balzac Quotes |
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| My dear, descended from the apes! Let us hope it is not true, but if it is, let us pray it will not become generally known. Bishop of Worcester, wife Quotes |
| In 1860 the famous duel between T.H. Huxley and Bishop Wilberforce took place, and the wife of the bishop of Worcester is reported to have said this in reaction to hearing Darwin’s theory of evolution. Bishop of Worcester, wife Quotes |
| The most remarkable discovery ever made by scientists was science itself. Jacob Bronowski Quotes |
It is said that science will dehumanize people and turn them into numbers. That is false, tragically false. Look for yourself. This is the concentration camp and crematorium at Auschwitz, this is where people were turned into numbers. Into this pond were flushed the ashes of four million people. And that was not done by gas. It was done by arrogance. It was done by dogma. It was done by ignorance. When people believe that they have absolute knowledge, with no test in reality, this is how they behave. This is what men do when they aspire to the knowledge of gods.
Science is a very human form of knowledge. We are always at the brink of the known, we always feel forward for what is to be hoped. Every judgment in science stands on The Edge or error, and is personal. Science is a tribute to what we can know although we are fallible. In the end the words were said by Oliver Cromwell: "I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken."
... We have to cure ourselves of the itch for absolute knowledge and power. We have to close the distance between the push-button order and the human act. We have to touch people. Jacob Bronowski Quotes |
| The true science and study of man is man. Pierre Charron Quotes |
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| If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong. Arthur C. Clarke Quotes |
| We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it. It must be done for itself, for the beauty of science, and then there is always the chance that a scientific discovery may become like the radium a benefit for humanity. Marie Curie Quotes |
| It is possible to enjoy the Mozart concerto without being able to play the clarinet. In fact, you can learn to be an expert connoisseur of music without being able to play a note on any instrument. Of course, music would come to a halt if nobody ever learned to play it. But if everybody grew up thinking that music was synonymous with playing it, think how relatively impoverished many lives would be. Couldn't we learn to think of science in the same way? Richard Dawkins Quotes |
| "Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination." John Dewey Quotes |
| One needn't be a crank to miss the scientific boat. The very paragon of genius, Albert Einstein, couldn't be persuaded to give quantum physics his unreserved endorsement. Here is Einstein's most frequently paraphrased statement of dissatisfaction with the theory: Quantum mechanics is very impressive. But an inner voice tells me that it is not yet the real thing. The theory yields a lot, but it hardly brings us any closer to the secret of the Old One. In any case I am convinced that He doesn't play dice. Albert Einstein Quotes |
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| The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe. Albert Einstein Quotes |
| "When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity." Albert Einstein Quotes |
| "Is no one inspired by our present picture of the universe? Our poets do not write about it; our artists do not try to portray this remarkable thing. The value of science remains unsung by singers: you are reduced to hearing not a song or poem, but an evening lecture about it. This is not yet a scientific age." Richard Feynman Quotes |
| There could be whole antiworlds and antipeople made out of antiparticles. However, if you ever meet your antiself, don't shake hands! You would both vanish in a great flash of light. Stephen Hawking Quotes |
| Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another. Thomas Hobbes Quotes |
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| The great tragedy of science -- the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. Thomas Henry Huxley Quotes |
| Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes |
| In this acausal world, scientists are helpless. Their predictions become postdictions- Their equations become justifications, their logic, illogic. Scientists turn reckless and mutter like gamblers who cannot stop betting. Scientists are buffoons, not because they are rational but because the cosmos is irrational. Or perhaps it is not because the cosmos is irrational but because they are rational. Who can say which, in an acausal world? Alan Lightman Quotes |
| "The priest persuades a humble people to endure their hard lot, a politician urges them to rebel against it, and a scientist thinks of a method that does away with the hard lot altogether." Max Percy Quotes |
| "There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be." Charles Sanders Pierce Quotes |
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| "A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it." Maxwell Planck Quotes |
| Religion and Science are two aspects of social life, of which the former has been important as far back as we know anything of man’s mental history, while the latter, after a fitful flickering existence among the Greeks and Arabs, suddenly sprang into importance in the sixteenth century, and has ever since increasingly moulded both the ideas and institutions among which we live. Bertrand Russell Quotes |
| It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and unexpected findings of science. Carl Sagan Quotes |
| Anthropology is the only discipline that can access evidence about the entire human experience on this planet. Michael Brian Schiffer Quotes |
| In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances. Herbert Spencer Quotes |
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| Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western World. Simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence. William Golding Quotes |
| Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error. Thomas Jefferson Quotes |
| The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos. Stephen Jay Gould Quotes |
| The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them. Sir William Bragg Quotes |
| The strongest arguments prove nothing so long as the conclusions are not verified by experience. Experimental science is the queen of sciences and the goal of all speculation. Roger Bacon Quotes |
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| Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion. Ralph Sockman Quotes |
| Systems thinking is a discipline for seeing wholes. It is a framework for seeing interrelationships rather than things, for seeing patterns of change rather than static "snapshots." It is a set of general principles -- distilled over the course of the twentieth century, spanning fields as diverse as the physical and social sciences, engineering, and management.... During the last thirty years, these tools have been applied to understand a wide range of corporate, urban, regional, economic, political, ecological, and even psychological systems. And systems thinking is a sensibility -- for the subtle interconnectedness that gives living systems their unique character. Peter Senge Quotes |
| Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount. Omar N. Bradley Quotes |
| As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss. Noam Chomsky Quotes |
| There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth. Marie Curie Quotes |
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| We know from science that nothing in the universe exists as an isolated or independent entity. Margaret J. Wheatley Quotes |
| The stellar universe is not so difficult of comprehension as the real actions of other people. Marcel Proust Quotes |
| Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under your observation in life. Marcus Aurelius Quotes |
| Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of the imagination. from The Quest For Certainty John Dewey Quotes |
| No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power. Jacob Bronowski Quotes |
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| In laying hands upon the sacred ark of absolute permanency, in treating the forms that had been regarded as types of fixity and perfection as originating and passing away, the Origin of Species introduced a mode of thinking that in the end was bound to transform the logic of knowledge, and hence the treatment of morals, politics, and religion.The Influence of Darwin on Philosophy John Dewey Quotes |
| Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. Isaac Asimov Quotes |
| I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. Isaac Newton Quotes |
| There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere. Isaac Asimov Quotes |
| [W]hen people thought the Earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the Earth was spherical they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the Earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the Earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together. Isaac Asimov Quotes |
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| The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not Eureka! (I found it!) but rather, "hmm.... that's funny...." Isaac Asimov Quotes |
| Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. Immanuel Kant Quotes |
| It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians. Henrik Ibsen Quotes |
| In this house, we OBEY the laws of thermodynamics! Homer Simpson Quotes |
| Religion and science both profess peace (and the sincerity of the professors is not being doubted), but each always turns out to have a dominant part in any war that is going or contemplated. Howard Nemerov Quotes |
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| Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts. The Dreams of Reason, 1988 Heinz Pagels Quotes |
| The fact that astronomies change while the stars abide is a true analogy of every realm of human life and thought, religion not least of all. No existent theology can be a final formulation of spiritual truth. The Living of These Days, 1956 Harry Emerson Fosdick Quotes |
| The scientist who yields anything to theology, however slight, is yielding to ignorance and false pretenses, and as certainly as if he granted that a horse-hair put into a bottle of water will turn into a snake. H. L. Mencken Quotes |
| Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality. Goethe Quotes |
| A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. George Bernard Shaw Quotes |
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| I do not feel obligated to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reasons, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. Galileo Galilei Quotes |
| The intention of the Holy Ghost is to teach us how one goes to heaven, not how heaven goes. Galileo Galilei Quotes |
| One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. The bamboozle has captured us. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back. Carl Sagan Quotes |
| There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California. Edward Abbey Quotes |
| The men of experiment are like the ant, they only collect and use; the reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance. But the bee takes the middle course: it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own. Not unlike this is the true business of philosophy (science); for it neither relies solely or chiefly on the powers of the mind, nor does it take the matter which it gathers from natural history and mechanical experiments and lay up in the memory whole, as it finds it, but lays it up in the understanding altered and disgested. Therefore, from a closer and purer league between these two faculties, the experimental and the rational (such as has never been made), much may be hoped. Francis Bacon Quotes |
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| Science is the tool of the Western mind and with it more doors can be opened than with bare hands. It is part and parcel of our knowledge and obscures our insight only when it holds that the understanding given by it is the only kind there is. Carl Jung Quotes |
| Science is what you know. Philosophy is what you don't know. Bertrand Russell Quotes |
| Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine. Arthur Eddington Quotes |
| The First Clarke Law states, 'If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible he is almost certainly right, but if he says that it is impossible he is very probably wrong.' Arthur C. Clarke Quotes |
| Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world. Archimedes Quotes |
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| Science can only determine what is, but not what shall be, and beyond its realm, value judgements remain indispensable. Religion, on the other hand, is concerned only with evaluating human thought and actions; it is not qualified to speak of real facts and the relationships between them. Albert Einstein Quotes |
| Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever. Albert Einstein Quotes |
| Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. Albert Einstein Quotes |
| The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed. Albert Einstein Quotes |
| Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it. Albert Einstein Quotes |
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| How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? Albert Einstein Quotes |
| All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom. Albert Einstein Quotes |
| I think science has enjoyed an extraordinary success because it has such a limited and narrow realm in which to focus its efforts. Namely, the physical universe. Ken Jenkins Quotes |
| No one should approach the temple of science with the soul of a money changer. Thomas Browne Quotes |
| If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate. Henry J. Tillman Quotes |
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| A biophysicist talks physics to the biologists and biology to the physicists, but then he meets another biophysicist, they just discuss women. Author Unknown Quotes |
| Nature composes some of her loveliest poems for the microscope and the telescope. Theodore Roszak Quotes |
| There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact. Mark Twain Quotes |
| Science is a cemetery of dead ideas. Miguel de Unamuno Quotes |
| The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny..." Isaac Asimov Quotes |
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| A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective. Edward Teller Quotes |
| Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. Wernher Von Braun Quotes |
| The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them. William Lawrence Bragg Quotes |
| Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. John Dewey Quotes |
| Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men. Jean Rostand Quotes |
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| Scientists should always state the opinions upon which their facts are based. Author Unknown Quotes |
| That theory is worthless. It isn't even wrong! Wolfgang Pauli Quotes |
Louise: "How did you get here?"
Johnny: "Well, basically, there was this little dot, right? And the dot went bang and the bang expanded. Energy formed into matter, matter cooled, matter lived, the amoeba to fish, to fish to fowl, to fowl to frog, to frog to mammal, the mammal to monkey, to monkey to man, amo amas amat, quid pro quo, memento mori, ad infinitum, sprinkle on a little bit of grated cheese and leave under the grill till Doomsday."
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| Science is built up of facts, as a house is built of stones; but an accumulation of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house. Henri Poincaré Quotes |
| A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation. Max Gluckman Quotes |
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| The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart. Walter Lippmann Quotes |
| Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| Whenever science makes a discovery, the devil grabs it while the angels are debating the best way to use it. Alan Valentine Quotes |
| Science is simply common sense at its best. Thomas Huxley Quotes |
| Great scientific discoveries have been made by men seeking to verify quite erroneous theories about the nature of things. Aldous Huxley, "Wordsworth in the Tr Quotes |
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| Physics is imagination in a straight jacket. John Moffat Quotes |
| If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos. Robert Quillen Quotes |
| To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth. Evelyn Fox Keller Quotes |
| The greatest discoveries of science have always been those that forced us to rethink our beliefs about the universe and our place in it. Robert L. Park, in Quotes |
| The great men of science are supreme artists. Martin H. Fischer Quotes |
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| It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible proof. John Desmond Bernal Quotes |
| Science is the topography of ignorance. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Quotes |
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Darwin has interested us in the history of nature's technology. Karl Marx Quotes |
| Observations always involve theory. Edwin Hubble Quotes |
| The capacity to blunder slightly is the real marvel of DNA. Without this special attribute, we would still be anaerobic bacteria and there would be no music. Lewis Thomas Quotes |
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| The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he's one who asks the right questions. Claude Lévi-Strauss Quotes |
| Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature. Martin H. Fischer Quotes |
| I am compelled to fear that science will be used to promote the power of dominant groups rather than to make men happy. Bertrand Russell Quotes |
| Physics is mathematical not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so little; it is only its mathematical properties that we can discover. Bertrand Russell Quotes |
| Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law. William James Quotes |
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| For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses. Robert M. Pirsig Quotes |
| Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue. Robert K. Merton Quotes |
| The whole history of physics proves that a new discovery is quite likely lurking at the next decimal place. F.K. Richtmeyer Quotes |
| There are no physicists in the hottest parts of hell, because the existence of a 'hottest part' implies a temperature difference, and any marginally competent physicist would immediately use this to run a heat engine and make some other part of hell comfortably cool. This is obviously impossible. Richard Davisson Quotes |
| The task of asking nonliving matter to speak and the responsibility for interpreting its reply is that of physics. J.T. Fraser Quotes |
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| The quantum is that embarrassing little piece of thread that always hangs from the sweater of space-time. Pull it and the whole thing unravels. Fred Alan Wolfe Quotes |
| The doubter is a true man of science; he doubts only himself and his interpretations, but he believes in science. Claude Bernard Quotes |
| In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself - nature does it for you. Frank Wilczek Quotes |
| There were two kinds of physicists in Berlin: on the one hand there was Einstein, and on the other all the rest. Rudolph Ladenburg Quotes |
| Science without conscience is the soul's perdition. François Rabelais Quotes |
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| Science is the record of dead religions. The Oscariana of Oscar Fingall O'Flahert Quotes |
| In a manner which matches the fortuity, if not the consequence, of Archimedes' bath and Newton's apple, the [3.6 million year old] fossil footprints were eventually noticed one evening in September 1976 by the paleontologist Andrew Hill, who fell while avoiding a ball of elephant dung hurled at him by the ecologist David Western. John Reader Quotes |
Amoebas at the start
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| Physics is geometric proof on steroids. S.A. Sachs Quotes |
| Ethics and Science need to shake hands. Richard Clarke Cabot Quotes |
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| Science is all those things which are confirmed to such a degree that it would be unreasonable to withhold one's provisional consent. Stephen Jay Gould Quotes |
| Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Quotes |
| The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking. Albert Einstein Quotes |
| Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind. Marston Bates Quotes |
| Life preys upon life. This is biology's most fundamental fact. Martin H. Fischer Quotes |
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| But the great tragedy of Science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact - which is so constantly being enacted under the eyes of philosophers... T.H. Huxley Quotes |
How index-learning turns no student pale,
Yet holds the eel of science by the tail!
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| DNA was the first three-dimensional Xerox machine. Kenneth Boulding, "Energy and the En Quotes |
If it's green or wriggles, it's biology.
If it stinks, it's chemistry.
If it doesn't work, it's physics.
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| It would be a poor thing to be an atom in a universe without physicists, and physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms. George Wald Quotes |
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| In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last. Hugh Walpole Quotes |
| Scientific principles and laws do not lie on the surface of nature. They are hidden, and must be wrested from nature by an active and elaborate technique of inquiry. John Dewey Quotes |
| The microwave oven is the consolation prize in our struggle to understand physics. Jason Love Quotes |
| I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them. Karl Friedrich Gauss Quotes |
| Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed. Thomas Henry Huxley Quotes |
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| The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment. Celia Green Quotes |
| Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art. Will Durant Quotes |
| Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them. Abraham Flexner Quotes |
| Science is always wrong. It never solves a problem without creating ten more. George Bernard Shaw Quotes |
| Reason, Observation, and Experience - the Holy Trinity of Science. Robert G. Ingersoll Quotes |
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| There is no national science just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is no longer science. Anton Chekhov Quotes |
| Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact. H.L. Mencken Quotes |
| But in science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs. Francis Darwin Quotes |
| It is the man of science, eager to have his every opinion regenerated, his every idea rationalized, by drinking at the fountain of fact, and devoting all the energies of his life to the cult of truth, not as he understands it, but as he does not yet understand it, that ought properly to be called a philosopher. Charles Peirce Quotes |
| The most remarkable discovery made by scientists is science itself. Gerard Piel Quotes |
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| An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature, and a measurement is the recording of Nature's answer. Max Planck Quotes |
| Theory helps us bear our ignorance of facts. George Santayana Quotes |
| In science it often happens that scientists say, "You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken," and then they actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion. Carl Sagan, 1987 Quotes |
| Physics isn't a religion. If it were, we'd have a much easier time raising money. Leon Lederman Quotes |
| The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. Eden Phillpotts Quotes |
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| My mother made me a scientist without ever intending to. Every other Jewish mother in Brooklyn would ask her child after school, "So? Did you learn anything today?" But not my mother. "Izzy," she would say, "did you ask a good question today?" That difference - asking good questions - made me become a scientist. Isidor Isaac Rabi Quotes |
| The effort to reconcile science and religion is almost always made, not by theologians, but by scientists unable to shake off altogether the piety absorbed with their mother's milk. H.L. Mencken Quotes |
| Scientists, therefore, are responsible for their research, not only intellectually but also morally. This responsibility has become an important issue in many of today's sciences, but especially so in physics, in which the results of quantum mechanics and relativity theory have opened up two very different paths for physicists to pursue. They may lead us - to put it in extreme terms - to the Buddha or to the Bomb, and it is up to each of us to decide which path to take. Fritjof Capra Quotes |
| Not fact-finding, but attainment to philosophy is the aim of science. Martin H. Fischer Quotes |
| There is no gravity. The earth sucks. Graffito Quotes |
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| The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. Isaac Asimov Quotes |
| In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics. Immanuel Kant Quotes |
| A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. Max Planck Quotes |
| The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer. Indeed the measure of our intellectual maturity, one philosopher suggests, is our capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers to better problems. G.W. Allport Quotes |
| The improver of natural science absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, scepticism is the highest of duties: blind faith the one unpardonable sin. Thomas Henry Huxley Quotes |
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| Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors … Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations. Albert Einstein Quotes |
| I made one great mistake in my life-when I signed the Letter to President Roosevelt recommending that atom bombs be made … but there was some justification-the danger that the Germans would make them. Albert Einstein Quotes |
| I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research. Albert Einstein Quotes |
| The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms. Albert Einstein Quotes |
| Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know. Bertrand Russell Quotes |
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| Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination. Bertrand Russell Quotes |
| Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated. George Santayana Quotes |
| You on the cutting edge of technology have already made yesterday's impossibilities the commonplace realities of today. Ronald Reagan Quotes |
| They had that special grace, that special spirit that says, "Give me a challenge and I'll meet it with joy. Ronald Reagan Quotes |
| Science... never solves a problem without creating ten more. George Bernard Shaw Quotes |
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| Science is the topography of ignorance. Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes |
| [Anthropology demands] the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess. Margaret Mead Quotes |
| The way to do fieldwork is never to come up for air until it is all over. Margaret Mead Quotes |
| Darwin has interested us in the history of nature's technology. Karl Marx Quotes |
| When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. Arthur C. Clarke Quotes |
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| Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof. Ashley Montague Quotes |
| I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true. Carl Sagan Quotes |
| All science is either physics or stamp collecting. Ernest Rutherford Quotes |
| Nothing shocks me. I'm a scientist. Harrison Ford Quotes |
| Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science. Henri Poincare Quotes |
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| There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance. Hippocrates Quotes |
| The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...' Isaac Asimov Quotes |
| Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise. Ivan Pavlov Quotes |
| It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young. Konrad Lorenz Quotes |
| The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers. Lewis Thomas Quotes |
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| There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science. Louis Pasteur Quotes |
| As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls. M. Cartmill Quotes |
| I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale. Marie Curie Quotes |
| Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes |
| In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite. Paul Dirac Quotes |
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| I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy. Richard Feynman Quotes |
| Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive, and probably wrong. Richard Feynman Quotes |
| Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers. Sir Arthur Eddington Quotes |
| In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not the man to whom the idea first occurs. Sir Francis Darwin Quotes |
| In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms. Stephen Jay Gould Quotes |
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| The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy. Steven Weinberg Quotes |
| Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense, differing from the latter only as a veteran may differ from a raw recruit: and its methods differ from those of common sense only as far as the guardsman's cut and thrust differ from the manner in which a savage wields his club. Thomas H. Huxley Quotes |
| The great tragedy of Science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. Thomas H. Huxley Quotes |
| If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability. Vannevar Bush Quotes |
| The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an improved theory, is it then a science or faith? Charles Darwin Quotes |
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| A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, -- a mere heart of stone. Charles Darwin Quotes |
| I love fools’ experiments. I am always making them. Charles Darwin Quotes |
| Nothing before had ever made me thoroughly realise, though I had read various scientific books, that science consists in grouping facts so that general laws or conclusions may be drawn from them. Charles Darwin Quotes |
| It is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science. Charles Darwin Quotes |
| Now my own suspicion is that the Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose. J.B.S. Haldane Quotes |
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| Why is it that you physicists always require so much expensive equipment? Now the Department of Mathematics requires nothing but money for paper, pencils, and erasers...and the Department of Philosophy is better still. It doesn't even ask for erasers. Isaac Asimov Quotes |
| To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science. Isaac Newton Quotes |
| I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light. Isaac Newton Quotes |
| The Law of conservation of energy tells us we can't get something for nothing, but we refuse to believe it. Isaac Asimov Quotes |
| Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge. Thomas Edison Quotes |
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| The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible. Albert Einstein Quotes |
| As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. Albert Einstein Quotes |
| Paley's argument is made with passionate sincerity and is informed by the best biological scholarship of his day, but it is wrong, gloriously and utterly wrong. Richard Dawkins Quotes |
| Science is not about building a body of known 'facts'. It is a method for asking awkward questions and subjecting them to a reality-check, thus avoiding the human tendency to believe whatever makes us feel good. Terry Pratchett Quotes |
| To those who do not know mathematics it is difficult to get across a real feeling as to the beauty, the deepest beauty, of nature. If you want to learn about nature, to appreciate nature, it is necessary to understand the language that she speaks in. Richard P. Feynman Quotes |
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| Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe. Galileo Galilei Quotes |
| Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of the imagination. John Dewey Quotes |
| If one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of his creation it would appear that God has a special fondness for stars and beetles. J.B.S. Haldane Quotes |
| If you are obliged to neglect any thing, let it be your chemistry. It is the least useful and the least amusing to a country gentleman of all the ordinary branches of science. Thomas Jefferson Quotes |
| All theoretical chemistry is really physics; and all theoretical chemists know it. Richard P. Feynman Quotes |
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| Natural selection, the unconscious, automatic, blind yet essentially non-random process that Darwin discovered, has no purpose in mind. If it can be said to play the role of watchmaker in nature, it is the blind watchmaker. Richard Dawkins Quotes |
| Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it. Richard P. Feynman Quotes |
| A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there. Charles Robert Quotes |
| Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another. Plato Quotes |
| If the solar system was brought about by an accidental collision, then the appearance of organic life on this planet was also an accident, and the whole evolution of Man was an accident too. If so, then all our present thoughts are mere accidents - the accidental by-product of the movement of atoms. And this holds for the thoughts of the materialists and astronomers as well as for anyone else's. But if their thoughts - i.e., of Materialism and Astronomy - are merely accidental by-products, why should we believe them to be true?
I see no reason for believing that one accident should be able to give me a correct account of all the other accidents.
It's like expecting that the accidental shape taken by the splash when you upset a milk-jug should give you a correct account of how the jug was made and why it was upset. C.S. Lewis Quotes |
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| Man's conquest of Nature turns out, in the moment of its consummation, to be Nature's conquest of Man. C.S. Lewis Quotes |
| No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong. Albert Einstein Quotes |
| If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it? Albert Einstein Quotes |
| I viewed my fellow man not as a fallen angel, but as a risen ape. Desmond Morris Quotes |
| Anyone who says that they can contemplate quantum mechanics without becoming dizzy has not understood the concept in the least. Niels Bohr Quotes |
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| In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms. GK Chesterton Quotes |
| For the wise men of old the cardinal problem had been how to conform the soul to reality. For magic and applied science alike the problem is how to subdue reality to the wishes of men. C.S. Lewis Quotes |
| What is now proved was once only imagined. William Blake Quotes |
| I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown. Woody Allen Quotes |
| Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor. Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes |
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| It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. Albert Einstein Quotes |
| Science never solves a problem without creating ten more. George Bernard Shaw Quotes |
| The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired. Stephen Hawking Quotes |
| The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing? Stephen Hawking Quotes |
| Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe? Stephen Hawking Quotes |
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| It is very easy to tell the difference between man-made and God-made objects. The more you magnify man-made objects, the cruder they look, but the more you magnify God-made objects, the more precise and intricate they appear. Luther Sutherland Quotes |
| People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too. Christopher Morley Quotes |
| A University of Chicago professor said the greatest day in the world was when a water puppy crawled out on land and decided to stay. The water puppy, he said, went on to become a man. If he proves that, I am willing to give up Christmas, Thanksgiving, and New Year's Day, and to celebrate Water Puppy Day. William Jennings Bryan Quotes |
| Scientists make a guess and call it a hypothesis. 'Guess' is too short a word for a professor. William Jennings Bryan Quotes |
| No doubt those who really founded modern science were usually those whose love of truth exceeded their love of power. C.S. Lewis Quotes |
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| The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny...' Isaac Asimov Quotes |
| All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive. GK Chesterton Quotes |
| If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. Lyall Watson Quotes |
| The more I study science, the more I believe in God. Albert Einstein Quotes |
| He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes |
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| Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions. Oscar Wilde Quotes |
| Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result. Oscar Wilde Quotes |
| The Roots of Violence: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice, Politics without principles Mahatma Gandhi Quotes |
| After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are always artists as well. Albert Einstein Quotes |
| If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism. Albert Einstein Quotes |
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| It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure. Albert Einstein Quotes |
| The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them. William Bragg Sr. Quotes |
| The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge. Thomas Berger Quotes |
| If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants. Isaac Newton Quotes |
| Everywhere you look in science, the harder it becomes to understand the universe without God. Robert Herrmann Quotes |
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| To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science. Albert Einstein Quotes |
| But probably every age gets, within certain limits, the science it deserves C.S. Lewis Quotes |
| Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes |
| Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence. Edgar Allan Poe Quotes |
| I think there should be something in science called the "reindeer effect." I don't know what it would be, but I think it'd be good to hear someone say, "Gentlemen, what we have here is a terrifying example of the reindeer effect." Jack Handy Quotes |
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| Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science. Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes |
| Science built the Academy, superstition the inquisition Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes |
| If we are going to teach creation science as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction. Judith Hayes Quotes |
| Science is nothing but perception. Plato Quotes |
| Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control. Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes |
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| All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation. Bertrand Russell Quotes |
| Science and art have that in common that everyday things seem to them new and attractive Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes |
| That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder. Bill Watterson Quotes |
| The world is full of strange phenomena that cannot be explained by the laws of logic or science. Dennis Rodman is only one example. Dave Barry Quotes |
| Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom Will Durant Quotes |
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| Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions Vera Rubin Quotes |
| A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless. Simone Weil Quotes |
| Imagination has always had powers of resurrection that no science can match Ingrid Bengis Quotes |
| Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother. Oprah Winfrey Quotes |
| My feeling is religious insofar as I am imbued with the consciousness of the insufficiency of the human mind to understand more deeply the harmony of the Universe which we try to formulate as "laws of nature Albert Einstein Quotes |
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| Science can teach us, and I think our own hearts can teach us, no longer to look around for imaginary supports, no longer to invent allies in the sky, but rather to look to our own efforts here below to make this world a fit place to live in, instead Bertrand Russell Quotes |
| Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof. Ashley Montagu Quotes |
| Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas: I wish, however, that the instrument might be less apt to decay, and that signs might be permanent, like the things they denote Samuel Johnson Quotes |
| Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be. Henry Fielding Quotes |
| There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance Hippocrates Quotes |
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| New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure Herbert Hoover Quotes |
| The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny' Isaac Asimov Quotes |
| Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. They are engines of change, windows on the world, lighthouses erected in the sea of time. Barbara W. Tuchman Quotes |
| Creativity in science could be described as the act of putting two and two together to make five Arthur Koestler Quotes |
| Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art Will Durant Quotes |
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| Science by itself has no moral dimension. But it does seek to establish truth. And upon this truth morality can be built. Dr. William H. Masters Quotes |
| Society is indeed a contract. It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born. Edmund Burke Quotes |
| Every effort for progress, for enlightenment, for science, for religious, political, and economic liberty, emanates from the minority, and not from the mass Emma Goldman Quotes |
| Happiness hates the timid! So does science! Eugene O'Neill Quotes |
| Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done. One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen. Robert Heinlein Quotes |
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| True science teaches, above all, to doubt and to be ignorant Miguel de Unamuno Quotes |
| Mathematics is the only science where one never knows what one is talking about nor whether what is said is true Bertrand Russell Quotes |
| It's not rocket science. It's social science. Clement Mok Quotes |
| We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. Dr. Carl Sagan Quotes |
| There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That's perfectly all right; they're the aperture to finding out what's right. Science is a self-correcting process. To be accepted, new ideas must survive the most rigorous standards of evidence and scrutiny. Dr. Carl Sagan Quotes |
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| The more we learn of science, the more we see that its wonderful mysteries are all explained by a few simple laws so connected together and so dependent upon each other, that we see the same mind animating them all. Olympia Brown Quotes |
| Science is a cemetery of dead ideas Miguel de Unamuno Quotes |
| The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. Albert Einstein Quotes |
| We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. Dr. Carl Sagan Quotes |
| There is no patriotic art and no patriotic science Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes |
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| They (preachers) dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subversions of the duperies on which they live Thomas Jefferson Quotes |
| Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts Richard Feynman Quotes |
| In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite. Paul Dirac Quotes |
| Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ John Calvin Quotes |
| Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification. Karl Popper Quotes |
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| We would be a lot safer if the Government would take its money out of science and put it into astrology and the reading of palms. Only in superstition is there hope. If you want to become a friend of civilization, then become an enemy of the truth and a fanatic for harmless balderdash. Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Quotes |
| Why does this applied science, which saves work and makes life easier, bring us so little happiness? The simple answer runs: Because we have not yet learned to make sensible use of it. Albert Einstein Quotes |
| Gravity is a contributing factor in nearly 73 percent of all accidents involving falling objects. Dave Barry Quotes |
| The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul. Alfred Adler Quotes |
| There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be. Charles Pierce Quotes |
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| Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example? Dennis Prager Quotes |
| Scientists often have a naive faith that if only they could discover enough facts about a problem, these facts would somehow arrange themselves in a compelling and true solution Theodosius Dobzhansky Quotes |
| Liberty is the great parent of science and of virtue; and a nation will be great in both always in proportion as it is free. Thomas Jefferson Quotes |
| If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits? Dr. Carl Sagan Quotes |
| The main purpose of science is simplicity and as we understand more things, everything is becoming simpler. Edward Teller Quotes |
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| Part of the strength of science is that it has tended to attract individuals who love knowledge and the creation of it. Phillip Hauge Abelson Quotes |
| I just read this great science fiction story. It's about how machines take control of humans and turn them into zombie slaves! . . . HEY! What time is it?? My TV show is on! Bill Watterson Quotes |
| Science is the refusal to believe on the basis of hope. Carrie P. Snow Quotes |
| The way a child discovers the world constantly replicates the way science began. You start to notice what's around you, and you get very curious about how things work. How things interrelate. It's as simple as seeing a bug that intrigues you. You want to know where it goes at night; who its friends are; what it eats. David Cronenberg Quotes |
| There is scarcely any part of science or any thing in nature, which those impostors and blasphemers of science, called priests, as well as Christians and Jews, have not, at some time or other, perverted, or sought to pervert to the purpose of superst Thomas Paine Quotes |
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| Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic. Thomas S. Szasz Quotes |
| Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact. Thomas Henry Huxley Quotes |
| A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars - -billions upon billions of stars Dr. Carl Sagan Quotes |
| Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery. Richard Powers Quotes |
| Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute. J. G. Ballard Quotes |
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| I know nothing of the science of astrology and I consider it to be a science, if it is a science, of doubtful value, to be severely left alone by those who have any faith in Providence Mahatma Gandhi Quotes |
| One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike - and yet it is the most precious thing we have Albert Einstein Quotes |
| But I have seen the science I worshipped and the aircraft I loved destroying the civilization I expected them to serve. Charles Lindbergh Quotes |
| False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness. Charles Darwin Quotes |
| A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms. George Wald Quotes |
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| Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science. Georges Seurat Quotes |
| Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition. Stephen Jay Gould Quotes |
| If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search.I was a sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety per cent of his labor. Nikola Tesla Quotes |
| Every scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with The Bible; next, they say it has been discovered before lastly, they say they always believed it. Louis Agassiz Quotes |
| Science is the century-old endeavour to bring together by means of systematic thought the perceptible phenomena of this world into as thorough-going an association as possible. To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of exis Albert Einstein Quotes |
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| Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things. Elbert Hubbard Quotes |
| Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense. Dr. Carl Sagan Quotes |
| Life is not an exact science, it is an art. Samuel Butler Quotes |
| I like to browse in occult bookshops if for no other reason than to refresh my commitment to science. Heinz R. Pagels Quotes |
| The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship. Robert A. Heinlein Quotes |
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| Science keeps down the weed of superstition not by logic, but by rendering the mental soil unfit for its cultivation John Tyndall Quotes |
| Marijuana is the finest anti-nausea medication known to science, and our leaders have lied about this consistently. [Arresting people for] medical marijuana is the most hideous example of government interference in the private lives of individuals. It's an outrage within an outrage within an outrage. Peter McWilliams Quotes |
| I think that a particle must have a separate reality independent of the measurements. That is an electron has spin, location and so forth even when it is not being measured. I like to think that the moon is there even if I am not looking at it. Albert Einstein Quotes |
| one of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science isescape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopelessdreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. Afinely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into theworld of objective perception and thought. Albert Einstein Quotes |
| True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time and society consider most important. Art transmits these truths from the region of perception. Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Quotes |
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| As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss. Avram Noam Chomsky Quotes |
| All science is either physics or stamp collecting. E. Rutherford Quotes |
| Science is not marginal. Like art, it is a universal possession of humanity, and scientific knowledge has become a vital part of our species' repertory. It comprises what we know of the material world with reasonable certainty. . . . Thanks to science and technology, access to factual information of all kinds is rising exponentially. Edward O. Wilson Quotes |
| Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science. Edwin Powell Hubble Quotes |
| Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts. Heinz R. Pagels Quotes |
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| Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science Henri Bergson Quotes |
| Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve. Max Planck Quotes |
| The man of science is a poor philosopher. Albert Einstein Quotes |
| Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought. Albert Einstein Quotes |
| Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact. Henry Louis Mencken Quotes |
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| Science has never drummed up quite as effective a tranquilizing agent as a sunny spring day. W. Earl Hall Quotes |
| ''Healing,'' Papa would tell me, ''is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'' W. H. Auden Quotes |
| The dogma of science is that the will cannot possibly affect external forces, and I think that's just ridiculous. It's as bad as the church. My viewpoint is the exact contrary of the scientific viewpoint. I believe that if you run into somebody in the street it's for a reason. Among primitive people they say if someone was bitten by a snake he was murdered. I believe that. William S. Burroughs Quotes |
| Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism David Suzuki Quotes |
| This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it. Thomas Dekker Quotes |
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| The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. Erich Fromm Quotes |
| Winning is the science of being totally prepared. George Allen Quotes |
| Creation science is an attempt to give credibility to Hebrew mythology by making people believe that the world's foremost biologists, paleontologists, and geologists are a bunch of incompetent nincompoops. Ron Peterson Quotes |
| In science there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting. Lord Kelvin Quotes |
| Fortunate Newton, happy childhood of science. Nature to him was an open book. He stands before us strong, certain, and alone. Albert Einstein Quotes |
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| Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death. God is Jesus. William Blake Quotes |
| The science of today is the technology of tomorrow. Edward Teller Quotes |
| That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding. Edward Abbey Quotes |
| Spots are on the surface of the solar body where they are produced and also dissolved, some in shorter and others in longer periods. They are carried around the Sun; an important occurrence in itself. Galileo Galilei Quotes |
| Politics are the divine science, after all John Adams Quotes |
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| However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson: Nothing is impossible. Lewis Mumford Quotes |
| A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it Max Planck Quotes |
| Science is not a sacred cow. Science is a horse. Don't worship it. Feed it. Aubrey Eben Quotes |
| The sweetest and most inoffensive path of life leads through the avenues of science and learning; and whoever can either remove any obstruction in this way, or open up any new prospect, ought, so far, to be esteemed a benefactor to mankind David Hume Quotes |
| Take the sum of human achievement in action, in science, in art, in literature -- subtract the work of the men above forty, and while we should miss great treasurers, even priceless treasures, we would practically be where we are today. . . . The effective, moving, vitalizing work of the world is done between the ages of twenty-five and forty. William Osler Quotes |
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| It's a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year Truman Capote Quotes |
| Today we are faced with the preeminent fact that, if civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world, at peace Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes |
| Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, Rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science Gary Zukav Quotes |
| Great moments in science: Einstein discovers that time is actually money. Gary Larson Quotes |
| Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of specu John Locke Quotes |
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| Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement. Oscar Wilde Quotes |
| The science of Psychiatry is now where the science of Medicine was before germs were discovered Malcolm Rogers Quotes |
| It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties. Alfred North Whitehead Quotes |
| Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles; he can only discover them. Thomas Paine Quotes |
| I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true. Dr. Carl Sagan Quotes |
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| As long as there are entrenched social and political distinctions between sexes, races, or classes, there will be forms of science whose main function is to rationalize and legitimize these distinctions Elizabeth Fee Quotes |
| The only possible conclusion the social sciences can draw is: some do, some don't Ernest Rutherford Quotes |
| We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. H. P Lovecraft Quotes |
| Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly. Swami Sivananda Quotes |
| Science is for those who learn; poetry, for those who know. Joseph Roux Quotes |
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| Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over-except when they are different. Nancy Banks Smith Quotes |
| Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone. Albert Einstein Quotes |
| The Foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose. William Blake Quotes |
| When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man Diogenes Quotes |
| When Kepler found his long-cherished belief did not agree with the most precise observation, he accepted the uncomfortable fact. He preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions; that is the heart of science. Dr. Carl Sagan Quotes |
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| In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken', and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen Dr. Carl Sagan Quotes |
| Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated. Tryon Edwards Quotes |
| Man is unique not because he does science, and his is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind. Jacob Bronowski Quotes |
| Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature. Jacob Bronowski Quotes |
| Bad science and bad religion simply swap roles, the former proclaiming Truth, the latter worshiping Doubt Jeffrey Satinover Quotes |
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| It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing. Norman Cousins Quotes |
| The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage. Mark Russell Quotes |
| The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I'm talking about an organic computer - about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor. Alvin Toffler Quotes |
| Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Barbara W. Tuchman Quotes |
| Christians have to listen to the world as well as to the Word -- to science, to history, to what reason and our own experience tell us. We do not honor the higher truth we find in Christ by ignoring truths found elsewhere. William Sloane Coffin Jr. Quotes |
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| The great tragedy of Science: the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact Thomas Henry Huxley Quotes |
| Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not. Isaac Asimov Quotes |
| The progress of science is the discovery at each step of a new order which gives unity to what had seemed unlike Jacob Bronkowski Quotes |
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