My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts, but why… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
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The present rate of progress [in X-ray crystallography] is determined, not so much by the lack of problems to investigate or the… — William Lawrence Bragg Copy Share Image
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“Sir P. C. Roy’s History of Hindu Chemistry, in B. N. Seal’s Positive Sciences of the Ancient Hindus, in B. K. Sarkar’s… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Man is the summit, the crown of nature's development, and must comprehend everything that has preceded him, even as the fruit includes… — Lorenz Oken Copy Share Image
Think that you are part of a big construction called science and you are not just a chemist but you are scientist.… — Jean-Marie Lehn Copy Share Image
“But first let me mention the second aid to understanding provided by science. We know today that in a physical experiment the… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Suppose someone follows the series "1,3,5,7, ..", and in writing the series 2x+1; and he asked himself "But am I always doing… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
It must be for truth's sake, and not for the sake of its usefulness to humanity, that the scientific man studies Nature.… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
Science gains from it [the pendulum] more than one can expect. With its huge dimensions, the apparatus presents qualities that one would… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Scientific truth is not what any one scientist puts forth. It can be that, but it is generally not. It is the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I don't expect that the scientific community now embraces and kisses me 'Oh wonderful, great you did!' we have to live with… — Erich von Däniken Copy Share Image
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She should have done science, not spent all her time with her head in novels. Novels gave you a completely false idea… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
In law, as in every other branch of knowledge, the truths given by induction tend to form the premises for new deductions.… — Benjamin N. Cardozo Copy Share Image
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![“Cecile was teaching in Berkeley and I was [at Livermore]. He probably had, could have had, some influence on Teller, [for] Teller was quite generous in allowing me one whole semester off to be at Berkeley to work on something and also a semester off at the Institute for Advanced Study. Then I won…” quote by Bryce S. DeWitt](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/621/bryce-s-dewitt-225069_berkeley_cecile-was-teaching-in-berkeley-and-i-wa_2608230.jpg)
![“The present rate of progress [in X-ray crystallography] is determined, not so much by the lack of problems to investigate or the limited power of X-ray analysis, as by the restricted number of investigators who have had a training in the technique of the new science, and by the time it naturally…” quote by William Lawrence Bragg](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/e46/william-lawrence-bragg-102464_accounts_the-present-rate-of-progress-in-x-ray-cr_2391720.jpg)
![“Science gains from it [the pendulum] more than one can expect. With its huge dimensions, the apparatus presents qualities that one would try in vain to communicate by constructing it on a small [scale], no matter how carefully. Already the regularity of its motion promises the most conclusive…” quote by Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/ccb/anonymous-1_abstract_science-gains-from-it-the-pendulum-more_285987.jpg)
![“[Coleridge] selected an instance of what was called the sublime, in DARWIN, who imagined the creation of the universe to have taken place in a moment, by the explosion of a mass of matter in the womb, or centre of space. In one and the same instant of time, suns and planets shot into systems in…” quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/42c/samuel-taylor-coleridge-425_barrels_coleridge-selected-an-instance-of-what-w_2556008.jpg)
![“[ The Old Astronomer to His Pupil ] Reach me down my Tycho Brahe , I would know him when we meet, When I share my later science, sitting humbly at his feet; He may know the law of all things, yet be ignorant of how We are working to completion, working on from then to now. Pray remember that I…” quote by Sarah Williams](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/0a0/sarah-williams-75927_astronomy_the-old-astronomer-to-his-pupil-reach-me_1586047.jpg)
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