Quotes on science
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
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Marcus Aelius Aurelius Quotes
Anthropology was the science that gave her the platform from which she surveyed, scolded and beamed at the world.
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Jane Howard Quotes
Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over-except when they are different.
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Nancy Banks-Smith Quotes
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.
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Isidor Isaac Rabi Quotes
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
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Albert Einstein 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.
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Charles Peirce 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.
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Max Planck Quotes
If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos.
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Robert Quillen Quotes
If Christian scientists had more science and doctors more Christianity, it wouldn't make any difference which you called in - if you had a good nurse.
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Finley Peter Dunne Quotes
There is no national science just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is no longer science.
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Anton Chekhov Quotes
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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Carl Sagan Quotes
The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.
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William Lawrence Bragg Quotes
In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.
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Hugh Walpole Quotes
Observations always involve theory.
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Edwin Hubble Quotes
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.
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George Wald Quotes
Whenever science makes a discovery, the devil grabs it while the angels are debating the best way to use it.
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Alan Valentine 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.
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Max Gluckman Quotes
Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact.
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H.L. Mencken Quotes
Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
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Adam Smith Quotes
Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue.
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Robert K. Merton Quotes
There is no gravity. The earth sucks.
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Graffito Quotes
Nature composes some of her loveliest poems for the microscope and the telescope.
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Theodore Roszak Quotes
Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense.
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Carl Sagan Quotes
Who discovered that CFCs [chlorofluorocarbons] posed a threat to the ozone layer? Was it the principal manufacturer, the DuPont Corporation, exercising corporate responsibility? Was it the Environmental Protection Agency protecting us? Was it the Department of Defense defending us? No, it was two ivory-tower, white-coated university scientists working on something else - Sherwood Rowland and Mario Molina of the University of California, Irvine. Not even an Ivy League university. No one instructed them to look for dangers to the environment. They were pursuing fundamental research. They were scientists following their own interests. Their names should be known to every schoolchild.
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Carl Sagan Quotes
Darwin has interested us in the history of nature's technology.
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Karl Marx 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.
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William James Quotes
Mathematics is the door and the key to the sciences.
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Roger Bacon 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.
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Ken Jenkins Quotes
There were two kinds of physicists in Berlin: on the one hand there was Einstein, and on the other all the rest.
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Rudolph Ladenburg Quotes
I am compelled to fear that science will be used to promote the power of dominant groups rather than to make men happy.
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Bertrand Russell Quotes
Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them.
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Abraham Flexner Quotes
Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.
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Miguel de Unamuno 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.
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Roger Bacon Quotes
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
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John Dewey Quotes
That theory is worthless. It isn't even wrong!
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Wolfgang Pauli 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
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Unknown Author 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.
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Robert L. Park 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.
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Richard Davisson Quotes
Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes
If you want to know when the next eclipse of the Sun will be, you might try magicians or mystics, but you'll do much better with scientists.
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Carl Sagan Quotes
For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses.
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Robert M. Pirsig Quotes
Science is all those things which are confirmed to such a degree that it would be unreasonable to withhold one's provisional consent.
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Stephen Jay Gould Quotes
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.
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Fred Alan Wolfe Quotes
In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics.
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Immanuel Kant Quotes
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.
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Henri Poincaré 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.
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Gordon Allport Quotes
Life preys upon life. This is biology's most fundamental fact.
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Martin H. Fischer Quotes
Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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Will Durant Quotes
Not fact-finding, but attainment to philosophy is the aim of science.
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Martin H. Fischer Quotes
The task of asking nonliving matter to speak and the responsibility for interpreting its reply is that of physics.
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J.T. Fraser Quotes
Physics is imagination in a straight jacket.
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John Moffat Quotes
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
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Eden Phillpotts Quotes
Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to support or prop up their beliefs. Yet has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science?
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Carl Sagan Quotes
But in science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.
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Francis Darwin Quotes
Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.
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Jean Rostand Quotes
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.
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Thomas Szasz Quotes
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 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 someting like that happened in politics or religion.
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Carl Sagan Quotes
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.
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Thomas Huxley Quotes
Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities.
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Alfred L. Kroeber Quotes
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.
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Walter Lippmann Quotes
Art, science, philosophy, religion - each offers at best only a crude simplification of actual living experience.
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Edward Abbey Quotes
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
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Isaac Asimov Quotes
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
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Albert Einstein Quotes
The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.
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Celia Green Quotes
Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.
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Edwin Powell Hubble Quotes
Great scientific discoveries have been made by men seeking to verify quite erroneous theories about the nature of things.
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Aldous Huxley Quotes
To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth.
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Evelyn Fox Keller Quotes
The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he's one who asks the right questions.
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Claude Lévi-Strauss Quotes
The microwave oven is the consolation prize in our struggle to understand physics.
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Jason Love 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.
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Carl Sagan Quotes
There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.
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Mark Twain Quotes
In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself - nature does it for you.
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Frank Wilczek Quotes