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My science teachers always encouraged their classes to 'go out and discover something' because all scientific endeavors depend on observation and experimentation.… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
If we seek for the simplest arrangement, which would enable it [the eye] to receive and discriminate the impressions of the different… — Thomas Young Copy Share Image
Chemistry is yet, indeed, a mere embryon. Its principles are contested; experiments seem contradictory; their subjects are so minute as to escape… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Politicians, real-estate agents, used-car salesmen, and advertising copy-writers are expected to stretch facts in self-serving directions, but scientists who falsify their results… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
To an extent that undermines classical standards of science, some purported scientific results concerning 'HIV' and 'AIDS' have been handled by press… — Serge Lang Copy Share Image
He who made us would have been a pitiful bungler, if he had made the rules of our moral conduct a matter… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“All organisms vary. It is in the highest degree improbable that any given variety should have exactly the same relations to surrounding… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
The student of biology is often struck with the feeling that historians, when dealing with the rise and fall of nations, do… — Ronald Ross Copy Share Image
What the scientists have always found by physical experiment was an a priori orderliness of nature, or Universe always operating at an… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
My first encounter with James was when I was seventeen. My brother brought home from the public library a science fiction anthology,… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
You only think about things when you see people doing it. Most girls know now they can be lawyers. They know that… — Judith Love Cohen Copy Share Image
The recent inspection find in the private home of a scientist of a box of some 3,000 pages of documents, much of… — Hans Blix Copy Share Image
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And when statesmen or others worry him [the scientist] too much, then he should leave with his possessions. With a firm and… — Tycho Brahe Copy Share Image
GRAVITATION, n. The tendency of all bodies to approach one another with a strength proportioned to the quantity of matter they contain-the… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“difference in kind between empirical questions characteristic of science and philosophical questions about the fact of existence itself (a distinction lost on… — Brad S. Gregory Copy Share Image
Few scientists acquainted with the chemistry of biological systems at the molecular level can avoid being inspired. Evolution has produced chemical compounds… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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I was full of pride when President Obama talked about coding in his last State of the Union address. I was proud… — Reshma Saujani Copy Share Image
Insofar as he makes use of his healthy senses, man himself is the best and most exact scientific instrument possible. The greatest… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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Having played many roles of scientific intellect I do have an empathy for that world. It's been hard on me because flying… — Patrick Stewart Copy Share Image
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As long as there have been people in California, there have been people obsessed with California's water. Scientists say the state is… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
“Natural philosophy is the genius that has regulated my fate; I desire, therefore, in this narration, to state those facts which led… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
When it seemed like I was going to really have to be there at Todd's [Willingham] execution, I don't think I could… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
What does cookery mean? It means the knowledge of Medea and of Circe, and of Calypso, and Sheba. It means knowledge of… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
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I have a friend — or had a friend, now dead — Abdus Salam, a very devout Muslim, who was trying to… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
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![“If we seek for the simplest arrangement, which would enable it [the eye] to receive and discriminate the impressions of the different parts of the spectrum, we may suppose three distinct sensations only to be excited by the rays of the three principal pure colours, falling on any given point of…” quote by Thomas Young](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/8fa/thomas-young-34970_arrangements_if-we-seek-for-the-simplest-arrangement_2986199.jpg)
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