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Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon compounds that crawl.Science and Scientists
Adams, Mike
Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought -- particularly for people who can never
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Allen, Woody
1935 American Director Screenwriter Actor Comedian
Rather than have it the principal thing in my son s mind, I would gladly have him think that the sun went round the earth, and that the stars were so many spangles set in the bright blue firmament.
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Arnold, Thomas
1795-1842 British Educator Scholar
But how is one to make a scientist understand that there is something unalterably deranged about differential calculus, quantum theory, or the obscene and so inanely liturgical ordeals of the precession of the equinoxes.
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Artaud, Antonin
1896-1948 French Theater Producer Actor Theorist
When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.
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Auden, W. H.
1907-1973 Anglo-American Poet
Science is but an image of the truth.
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Bacon, Francis
1561-1626 British Philosopher Essayist Statesman
Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural.
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Barr, Amelia E.
1831-1919 Anglo-American Novelist
The microbe is so very small: You cannot take him out at all.
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Belloc, Hilaire
1870-1953 British Author
In science as in love, too much concentration on technique can often lead to impotence.
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Berger, P. L.
If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.
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Bohr, Niels
1885-1962 Danish Physicist
Art is meant to disturb. Science reassures.
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Braque, Georges
1882-1963 French Painter
Science knows only one commandment -- contribute to science.
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Brecht, Bertolt
1898-1956 German Dramatist Poet
That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.
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Bronowski, Jacob
1908-1974 British Scientist Author
Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years. But if that is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist. And I doubt whether it will be a man.
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Bronowski, Jacob
1908-1974 British Scientist Author
It doesn t matter whether you re talking about bombs or the intelligence quotients of one race as against another if a man is a scientist, like me, he ll always say Publish and be damned.
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Bronowski, Jacob
1908-1974 British Scientist Author
No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.
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Bronowski, Jacob
1908-1974 British Scientist Author
Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved.
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Bronowski, Jacob
1908-1974 British Scientist Author
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.
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Brown, Olympia
1835-1926 American Women's Suffrage Leader
I hate science. It denies a man s responsibility for his own deeds, abolishes the brotherhood that springs from God s fatherhood. It is a hectoring, dictating expertise, which makes the least lovable of the Church Fathers seem liberal by contrast. It is far easier for a Hitler or a Stalin to find a mock-scientific excuse for persecution than it was for Dominic to find a mock-Christian one.
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Bunting, Basil
1900-1985 British Poet
They tend to be suspicious, bristly, paranoid-type people with huge egos they push around like some elephantiasis victim with his distended testicles in a wheelbarrow terrified no doubt that some skulking ingrate of a clone student will sneak into his very brain and steal his genius work.
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Burroughs, William S.
1914-1997 American Writer
Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. Nearly all men of science, all men of learning for that matter, and men of simple ways too, have it in some form and in some degree. It is the faith that it is the privilege of man to learn to understand, and that this is his mission. If we abandon that mission under stress we shall abandon it forever, for stress will not cease. Knowledge for the sake of understanding, not merely to prevail, that is the essence of our being. None can define its limits, or set its ultimate boundaries.
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Bush, Vannevar
Science, after all, is only an expression for our ignorance of our own ignorance.
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Butler, Samuel
1612-1680 British Poet Satirist
Science is but the exchange of ignorance for that which is another kind of ignorance.
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Byron, Lord
1788-1824 British Poet
O Star-eyed Science! hast thou wandered there, to waft us home the message of despair?
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Campbell, Thomas
1777-1844 Scottish Poet
Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.
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Carlyle, Thomas
1795-1881 Scottish Philosopher Author
There are two kinds of truth; the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science, and the second is art. Without art science would be as useless as a pair of high forceps in the hands of a plumber. Without science art would become a crude mess of folklore and emotional quackery.
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Chandler, Raymond
1888-1959 American Author
The true science and study of man, is man himself.
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Charron, Pierre
1541-1603 French Philosopher
Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.
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Chesterton, Gilbert K.
1874-1936 British Author
The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations.
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Chesterton, Gilbert K.
1874-1936 British Author
The latest refinements of science are linked with the cruelties of the Stone Age.
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Churchill, Winston
1874-1965 British Statesman Prime Minister
Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.
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Clarke, Arthur C.
1917 British Science Fiction Writer
Researchers, with science as their authority, will be able to cut [Animals] up, alive, into small pieces, drop them from a great height to see if they are shattered by the fall, or deprive them of sleep for sixteen days and nights continuously for the purposes of an iniquitous monograph... Animal trust, undeserved faith, when at last will you turn away from us? Shall we never tire of deceiving, betraying, tormenting animals before they cease to trust us?
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Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle
1873-1954 French Author
A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that he is going to be a beginner all his life.
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Collingwood, Robin G.
1889-1943 British Historian Philosopher
Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.
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Connolly, Cyril
1903-1974 British Critic
Everybody s a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We re all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos.
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Cronenberg, David
1943 Canadian Filmmaker
Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.
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Daumal, Rene
1908-1944 French Poet Critic
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
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Dewey, John
1859-1952 American Philosopher Educator
Faith is a fine invention when Gentleman can see -- but microscopes are prudent in an emergency
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Dickinson, Emily
1830-1886 American Poet
Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world.
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Diderot, Denis
1713-1784 French Philosopher
The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.
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Disraeli, Benjamin
1804-1881 British Statesman Prime Minister
Let me arrest thy thoughts; wonder with me, why plowing, building, ruling and the rest, or most of those arts, whence our lives are blest, by cursed Cain s race invented be, and blest Seth vexed us with Astronomy.
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Donne, John
1572-1632 British Metaphysical Poet
Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.
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Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
1859-1930 British Author Sherlock Holmes
Thus will the fondest dream of Phallic science be realized: a pristine new planet populated entirely by little boy clones of great scientific entrepreneurs free to smash atoms, accelerate particles, or, if they are so moved, build pyramids -- without any social relevance or human responsibility at all.
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Ehrenreich, Barbara
1941 American Author Columnist
The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
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Ehrlich, Paul
1854-1915 Polish Bacteriologist
A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.
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Einstein, Albert
1879-1955 German-born American Physicist
The man of science is a poor philosopher.
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Einstein, Albert
1879-1955 German-born American Physicist
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
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Einstein, Albert
1879-1955 German-born American Physicist
Science is the century-old endeavor to bring together by means of systematic thought the perceptible phenomena of this world into as thorough-going an association as possible.
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Einstein, Albert
1879-1955 German-born American Physicist
Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought.
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Einstein, Albert
1879-1955 German-born American Physicist
Formal symbolic representation of qualitative entities is doomed to its rightful place of minor significance in a world where flowers and beautiful women abound.
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Einstein, Albert
1879-1955 German-born American Physicist
Science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgments of all kinds remain necessary.
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Einstein, Albert
1879-1955 German-born American Physicist
When the number of factors coming into play in a phenomenological complex is too large scientific method in most cases fails.
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Einstein, Albert
1879-1955 German-born American Physicist
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
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Einstein, Albert
1879-1955 German-born American Physicist
Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science
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Einstein, Albert
1879-1955 German-born American Physicist
What terrible questions we are learning to ask! The former men believed in magic, by which temples, cities, and men were swallowed up, and all trace of them gone. We are coming on the secret of a magic which sweeps out of men s minds all vestige of theism and beliefs which they and their fathers held and were framed upon.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1803-1882 American Poet Essayist
Do what we can, summer will have its flies.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1803-1882 American Poet Essayist
If they don t depend on true evidence, scientists are no better than gossips.
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Fitzgerald, Penelope
1916 British Author
Neurophysiologists will not likely find what they are looking for, for that which they are looking for is that which is looking.
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Floyd, Keith
Furnished as all Europe now is with Academies of Science, with nice instruments and the spirit of experiment, the progress of human knowledge will be rapid and discoveries made of which we have at present no conception. I begin to be almost sorry I was born so soon, since I cannot have the happiness of knowing what will be known a hundred years hence.
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Franklin, Benjamin
1706-1790 American Scientist Publisher Diplomat
The pace of science forces the pace of technique. Theoretical physics forces atomic energy on us; the successful production of the fission bomb forces upon us the manufacture of the hydrogen bomb. We do not choose our problems, we do not choose our products; we are pushed, we are forced -- by what? By a system which has no purpose and goal transcending it, and which makes man its appendix.
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Fromm, Erich
1900-1980 American Psychologist
Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; but a belief is always sensitive.
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Froude, James A.
1818-1894 British Historian
There is an insistent tendency among serious social scientists to think of any institution which features rhymed and singing commercials, intense and lachrymose voices urging highly improbable enjoyment, caricatures of the human esophagus in normal and impaired operation, and which hints implausibly at opportunities for antiseptic seduction as inherently trivial. This is a great mistake. The industrial system is profoundly dependent on commercial television and could not exist in its present form without it.
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Galbraith, John Kenneth
1908 American Economist
The real accomplishment of modern science and technology consists in taking ordinary men, informing them narrowly and deeply and then, through appropriate organization, arranging to have their knowledge combined with that of other specialized but equally ordinary men. This dispenses with the need for genius. The resulting performance, though less inspiring, is far more predictable.
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Galbraith, John Kenneth
1908 American Economist
Science is analytical, descriptive, informative. Man does not live by bread alone, but by science he attempts to do so. Hence the deadliness of all that is purely scientific.
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Gill, Eric
1882-1940 British Sculptor Engraver Writer Typographer
Whether a person shows themselves to be a genius in science or in writing a song, the only point is, whether the thought, the discovery, or the deed, is living and can live on.
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
1749-1832 German Poet Dramatist Novelist
The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
1749-1832 German Poet Dramatist Novelist
Science has been seriously retarded by the study of what is not worth knowing and of what is not knowable.
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
1749-1832 German Poet Dramatist Novelist
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.
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Gould, Stephen Jay
Science is the only truth and it is the great lie. It knows nothing, and people think it knows everything. It is misrepresented. People think that science is electricity, automobilism, and dirigible balloons. It is something very different. It is life devouring itself. It is the sensibility transformed into intelligence. It is the need to know stifling the need to live. It is the genius of knowledge vivisecting the vital genius.
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Gourmont, Remy De
1858-1915 French Novelist Philosopher Poet Playwright
Since we are assured that the all-wise Creator has observed the most exact proportions of number, weight and measure in the make of all things, the most likely way therefore to get any insight into the nature of those parts of the Creation which come within our observation must in all reason be to number, weigh and measure.
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Hales, Stephen
Well: what we gain by science is, after all, sadness, as the Preacher saith. The more we know of the laws and nature of the Universe the more ghastly a business we perceive it all to be -- and the non-necessity of it.
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Hardy, Thomas
1840-1928 British Novelist Poet
There are no better terms available to describe [The] difference between the approach of the natural and the social sciences than to call the former objective and the latter subjective. ... While for the natural scientist the contrast between objective facts and subjective opinions is a simple one, the distinction cannot as readily be applied to the object of the social sciences. The reason for this is that the object, the facts of the social sciences are also opinions -- not opinions of the student of the social phenomena, of course, but opinions of those whose actions produce the object of the social scientist.
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Hayek, Friedrich August Von
Everywhere you look in science, the harder it becomes to understand the universe without God.
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Herrman, Robert
American Scientist
Science, which cuts its way through the muddy pond of daily life without mingling with it, casts its wealth to right and left, but the puny boatmen do not know how to fish for it.
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Herzen, Alexander
1812-1870 Russian Journalist Political Thinker
Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.
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Hobbes, Thomas
1588-1679 British Philosopher
There is not much that even the most socially responsible scientists can do as individuals, or even as a group, about the social consequences of their activities.
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Hobsbawm, E. J.
1917 British Historian
To overturn orthodoxy is no easier in science than in philosophy, religion, economics, or any of the other disciplines through which we try to comprehend the world and the society in which we live.
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Hubbard, Ruth
1924 American Biologist
The mythology of science asserts that with many different scientists all asking their own questions and evaluating the answers independently, whatever personal bias creeps into their individual answers is cancelled out when the large picture is put together. This might conceivably be so if scientists were women and men from all sorts of different cultural and social backgrounds who came to science with very different ideologies and interests. But since, in fact, they have been predominantly university-trained white males from privileged social backgrounds, the bias has been narrow and the product often reveals more about the investigator than about the subject being researched.
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Hubbard, Ruth
1924 American Biologist
Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.
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Huxley, Aldous
1894-1963 British Author
We are living now, not in the delicious intoxication induced by the early successes of science, but in a rather grisly morning-after, when it has become apparent that what triumphant science has done hitherto is to improve the means for achieving unimproved or actually deteriorated ends.
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Huxley, Aldous
1894-1963 British Author
I know of no department of natural science more likely to reward a man who goes into it thoroughly than anthropology. There is an immense deal to be done in the science pure and simple, and it is one of those branches of inquiry which brings one into contact with the great problems of humanity in every direction.
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Huxley, Thomas H.
1825-1895 British Biologist Educator
Science is simply common sense at its best--that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
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Huxley, Thomas H.
1825-1895 British Biologist Educator
The great tragedy of science is the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
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Huxley, Thomas H.
1825-1895 British Biologist Educator
In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.
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Huxley, Thomas H.
1825-1895 British Biologist Educator
It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
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Ibsen, Henrik
1828-1906 Norwegian Dramatist
Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.
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Ingersoll, Robert Green
1833-1899 American Orator Lawyer
There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.
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James, P. D.
1920 British Mystery Writer
Man lives for science as well as bread.
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James, William
1842-1910 American Psychologist Professor Author
All science is either physics or stamp collecting.
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Kelvin, Lord
We have genuflected before the god of science only to find that it has given us the atomic bomb, producing fears and anxieties that science can never mitigate.
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King Jr. Martin Luther
1929-1968 American Black Leader Nobel Prize Winner 1964
For undemocratic reasons and for motives not of State, they arrive at their conclusions -- largely inarticulate. Being void of self-expression they confide their views to none; but sometimes in a smoking room, one learns why things were done.
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Kipling, Rudyard
1865-1936 British Author of Prose Verse
The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.
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Klee, Paul
1879-1940 Swiss Artist
Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity.
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Koestler, Arthur
1905-1983 Hungarian Born British Writer
Science is a game we play with God, to find out what his rules are.
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Krasel, Cornelius
Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.
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Kraus, Karl
1874-1936 Austrian Satirist
In everything that relates to science, I am a whole Encyclopaedia behind the rest of the world.
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Lamb, Charles
1775-1834 British Essayist Critic
Science is all metaphor.
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Leary, Timothy
1921-1996 American Actor
The future of humanity is uncertain, even in the most prosperous countries, and the quality of life deteriorates; and yet I believe that what is being discovered about the infinitely large and infinitely small is sufficient to absolve this end of the century and millennium. What a very few are acquiring in knowledge of the physical world will perhaps cause this period not to be judged as a pure return of barbarism.
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Levi, Primo
1919-1987 Italian Chemist Author
The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.
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Levi-Strauss, Claude
1908 French Anthropologist
Science is the systematic classification of experience.
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Lewes, George Henry
1817-1878 British Writer
When we say science we can either mean any manipulation of the inventive and organizing power of the human intellect: or we can mean such an extremely different thing as the religion of science, the vulgarized derivative from this pure activity manipulated by a sort of priestcraft into a great religious and political weapon.
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Lewis, Wyndham
1882-1957 British Author Painter
The puritanical potentialities of science have never been forecast. If it evolves a body of organized rites, and is established as a religion, hierarchically organized, things more than anything else will be done in the name of decency. The coarse fumes of tobacco and liquors, the consequent tainting of the breath and staining of white fingers and teeth, which is so offensive to many women, will be the first things attended to.
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Lewis, Wyndham
1882-1957 British Author Painter
The most heated defenders of a science, who cannot endure the slightest sneer at it, are commonly those who have not made very much progress in it and are secretly aware of this defect.
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Lichtenberg, Georg C.
1742-1799 German Physicist Satirist
There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.
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Lichtenberg, Georg C.
1742-1799 German Physicist Satirist
If it can t be expressed in figures, it s not science it s opinion.
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Long, Lazarus
It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.
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Lorenz, Konrad
1903-1989 Austrian Zoologist Ethnologist
Truth in science can best be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.
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Lorenz, Konrad
1903-1989 Austrian Zoologist Ethnologist
Science has always been too dignified to invent a good backscratcher.
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Marquis, Don
1878-1937 American Humorist Journalist
Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science.
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Marx, Karl
1818-1883 German Political Theorist Social Philosopher
The product of mental labor -- science -- always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.
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Marx, Karl
1818-1883 German Political Theorist Social Philosopher
In science, all facts no matter how trivial, enjoy democratic equality.
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Mccarthy, Mary
1912-1989 American Author Critic
There s not a whole lot of new atoms out there.
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McDonough, Denny
The negative cautions of science are never popular. If the experimentalist would not commit himself, the social philosopher, the preacher, and the pedagogue tried the harder to give a short-cut answer.
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Mead, Margaret
1901-1978 American Anthropologist
From man or angel the great Architect did wisely to conceal, and not divulge his secrets to be scanned by them who ought rather admire; or if they list to try conjecture, he his fabric of the heavens left to their disputes, perhaps to move his laughter at their quaint opinions wide hereafter, when they come to model heaven calculate the stars, how they will wield the mighty frame, how build, unbuild, contrive to save appearances, how gird the sphere with centric and eccentric scribbled o er, and epicycle, orb in orb.
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Milton, John
1608-1674 British Poet
Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.
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Mitchell, Maria
1943 Canadian Singer Songwriter
Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have Certainty without any proof.
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Montague, C. E.
1867-1928 British Author Journalist
The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct which, with the addition of certain verbal interpretations describes observed phenomena. The justification of such a mathematical construct is solely and precisely that it is expected to work.
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Neumann, John Von
I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, 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.
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Newton, Sir Isaac
1642-1727 British Scientist Mathematician
Oh, how much is today hidden by science! Oh, how much it is expected to hide!
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Nietzsche, Friedrich
1844-1900 German Philosopher
Science has not solved problems, only shifted the points of problems.
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Parkhurst, Charles H.
1842-1933 American Clergyman Reformer
Science is intimately integrated with the whole social structure and cultural tradition. They mutually support one other -- only in certain types of society can science flourish, and conversely without a continuous and healthy development and application of science such a society cannot function properly.
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Parsons, Talcott
Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.
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Pascal, Blaise
1623-1662 French Scientist Religious Philosopher
There does not exist a category of science to which one can give the name applied science. There are science and the applications of science, bound together as the fruit of the tree which bears it.
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Pasteur, Louis
1822-1895 French Scientist Who Developed Pasteurization
There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.
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Pasteur, Louis
1822-1895 French Scientist Who Developed Pasteurization
Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20 -- 20 hindsight. It s good for seeing where you ve been. It s good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can t tell you where you ought to go.
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Pirsig, Robert M.
American Author
If the study of all these sciences which we have enumerated, should ever bring us to their mutual association and relationship, and teach us the nature of the ties which bind them together, I believe that the diligent treatment of them will forward the objects which we have in view, and that the labor, which otherwise would be fruitless, will be well bestowed.
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Plato
BC 427-347 Greek Philosopher
I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
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Plato
BC 427-347 Greek Philosopher
Science is nothing but perception.
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Plato
BC 427-347 Greek Philosopher
Nevertheless, in order to imbue civilization with sound principles and enliven it with the spirit of the gospel, it is not enough to be illumined with the gift of faith and enkindled with the desire of forwarding a good cause. For this end it is necessary to take an active part in the various organizations and influence them from within. And since our present age is one of outstanding scientific and technical progress and excellence, one will not be able to enter these organizations and work effectively from within unless he is scientifically competent, technically capable and skilled in the practice of his own profession.
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Pope John XXIII
1881-1963 Italian Head of Roman Catholic Order
One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
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Pope, Alexander
1688-1744 British Poet Critic Translator
Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.
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Popper, Karl
1902-1994 Australian Philosopher
Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual sense of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtle than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery.
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Powers, Richard
Science is Christian, not when it condemns itself to the letter of things, but when, in the infinitely little, it discovers as many mysteries and as much depth and power as in the infinitely great.
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Quinet, Edgar
1803-1875 French Poet Historian Politician
It is not easy to imagine how little interested a scientist usually is in the work of any other, with the possible exception of the teacher who backs him or the student who honors him.
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Rostand, Jean
1894-1977 French Biologist Writer
It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of.
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Rostand, Jean
1894-1977 French Biologist Writer
A body of work such as Pasteur s is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.
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Rostand, Jean
1894-1977 French Biologist Writer
Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.
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Rostand, Jean
1894-1977 French Biologist Writer
When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won t one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic.
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Rostand, Jean
1894-1977 French Biologist Writer
Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know.
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Roux, Joseph
1834-1905 French Priest Writer
The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.
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Ruskin, John
1819-1900 British Critic Social Theorist
Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.
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Russell, Bertrand
1872-1970 British Philosopher Mathematician Essayist
Science is what you know, philosophy what you don t know.
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Russell, Bertrand
1872-1970 British Philosopher Mathematician Essayist
In science men have discovered an activity of the very highest value in which they are no longer, as in art, dependent for progress upon the appearance of continually greater genius, for in science the successors stand upon the shoulders of their predecessors; where one man of supreme genius has invented a method, a thousand lesser men can apply it.
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Russell, Bertrand
1872-1970 British Philosopher Mathematician Essayist
Can a society in which thought and technique are scientific persist for a long period, as, for example, ancient Egypt persisted, or does it necessarily contain within itself forces which must bring either decay or explosion?
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Russell, Bertrand
1872-1970 British Philosopher Mathematician Essayist
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
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Santayana, George
1863-1952 American Philosopher Poet
Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.
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Shaw, George Bernard
1856-1950 Irish-born British Dramatist
Science is always wrong, it never solves a problem without creating ten more.
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Shaw, George Bernard
1856-1950 Irish-born British Dramatist
Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
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Smith, Adam
1723-1790 Scottish Economist
Science is organized knowledge.
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Spencer, Herbert
1820-1903 British Philosopher
He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers.
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Swift, Jonathan
1667-1745 Anglo-Irish Satirist
The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.
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Teller, Edward
American Physicist and Author
If we knew all the laws of Nature, we should need only one fact, or the description of one actual phenomenon, to infer all the particular results at that point. Now we know only a few laws, and our result is vitiated, not, of course, by any confusion or irregularity in Nature, but by our ignorance of essential elements in the calculation. Our notions of law and harmony are commonly confined to those instances which we detect; but the harmony which results from a far greater number of seemingly conflicting, but really concurring, laws, which we have not detected, is still more wonderful. The particular laws are as our points of view, as, to the traveler, a mountain outline varies with every step, and it has an infinite number of profiles, though absolutely but one form. Even when cleft or bored through it is not comprehended in its entireness.
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Thoreau, Henry David
1817-1862 American Essayist Poet Naturalist
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 to the region of emotion.
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Tolstoy, Count Leo
1828-1910 Russian Novelist Philosopher
Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money of them.
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Twain, Mark
1835-1910 American Humorist Writer
Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.
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Unamuno, Miguel De
1864-1936 Spanish Philosophical Writer
Isn t it marvelous how those scientists know the names of all those stars?
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Unknown, Source
Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.
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Valery, Paul
1871-1945 French Poet Essayist
Science is feasible when the variables are few and can be enumerated; when their combinations are distinct and clear. We are tending toward the condition of science and aspiring to do it. The artist works out his own formulas; the interest of science lies in the art of making science.
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Valery, Paul
1871-1945 French Poet Essayist
If politicians and scientist were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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Waugh, Evelyn
1903-1966 British Novelist
To us, men of the West, a very strange thing happened at the turn of the century; without noticing it, we lost science, or at least the thing that had been called by that name for the last four centuries. What we now have in place of it is something different, radically different, and we don t know what it is. Nobody knows what it is.
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Weil, Simone
1910-1943 French Philosopher Mystic
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.
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Weinberg, Steven
1933 American Nuclear Physicist
Man has to awaken to wonder -- and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.
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Wittgenstein, Ludwig
1889-1951 Austrian Philosopher