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title: "8 Science Essentially Quotes by 7 authors"
description: "Browse 8 Science Essentially quotes by 7 authors. Discover the best Science Essentially sayings and thoughts."
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> [Science is an essentially anarchic enterprise...](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-feyerabend/science-is-an-essentially-anarchic-enterprise/)

[Paul Feyerabend](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-feyerabend/)

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> [I spent my adult life as a scientist, and science is, essentially, the most successful approach we have to try and understand…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-eagleman/i-spent-my-adult-life-as-a-scientist-and-science-is-essentially-the/)

[David Eagleman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-eagleman/)

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> [Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/albert-einstein/most-of-the-fundamental-ideas-of-science-are-essentially-simple-and/)

[Albert Einstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/albert-einstein/)

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> [My interest in science was always essentially limited to the study of principles… That I have published so little is due to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/albert-einstein/my-interest-in-science-was-always-essentially-limited-to-the-study-of/)

[Albert Einstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/albert-einstein/)

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> [My point of view is that science is essentially private, whereas the almost universal counter point of view, explicitly stated in many…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/percy-williams-bridgman/my-point-of-view-is-that-science-is-essentially-private-whereas-the/)

[Percy Williams Bridgman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/percy-williams-bridgman/)

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> [Since science is essentially objective, involving the study of how things actually are, "materialism" would therefore seem to be its antithesis, since…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/melanie-phillips/since-science-is-essentially-objective-involving-the-study-of-how/)

[Melanie Phillips](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/melanie-phillips/)

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> [After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marie-curie/after-all-science-is-essentially-international-and-it-is-only-through/)

[Marie Curie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marie-curie/)

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> [“Any account of science which does not explicitly describe it as something we believe in is essentially incomplete and a false pretense.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-rhodes/any-account-of-science-which-does-not-explicitly-describe-it-as/)

[Richard Rhodes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-rhodes/)

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