“During the Society's early years, no member personified the organization's eccentricities or audacious mission more than Sir Francis Galton. A cousin of… — David Grann Copy Share Image
If [science] tends to thicken the crust of ice on which, as it were, we are skating, it is all right. If… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
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Science does not enter a chaotic society to put order into it anymore, to simplify its composition, and to put an end… — Bruno Latour Copy Share Image
Surgical Anatomy is, to the student of medicine and surgery, the most essential branch of anatomical science, having reference more especially to… — Henry Gray Copy Share Image
“Sigmund Freud was a novelist with a scientific background. He just didn’t know he was a novelist. All those damn psychiatrists after… — John Irving Copy Share Image
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There is no art or science that is too difficult for industry to attain to; it is the gift of tongues, and… — Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon Copy Share Image
There is a scientific explanation of healings by the power of Mind over matter which demonstrates that such healings are not miracles,… — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
“As to rocket ships flying between America and Europe, I believe it is worth seriously trying for. Thirty years ago persons who… — Auguste Piccard Copy Share Image
I've always been amazed by Da Vinci, because he worked out science on his own. He would work by drawing things and… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Well do I remember that dark hot little office in the hospital at Begumpett, with the necessary gleam of light coming in… — Ronald Ross Copy Share Image
Abundant choice doesn't force us to look for the absolute best of everything. It allows us to find the extremes in those… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
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Since most scientists are just a bit religious, and most religious are seldom wholly unscientific, we find humanity in a comical position.… — William Golding Copy Share Image
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Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things. For if a man says that… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
“God is not a scientific hypothesis that might rival evolution. To think he is reduces the Creator to a creature, a highly… — George Cardinal Pell Copy Share Image
Nothing will so enlarge the intellect, nothing so magnify the whole soul of man, as a devout, earnest, continued, investigation of the… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Science fiction is essentially a kind of fiction in which people learn more about how to live in the real world, visiting… — Brian Stableford Copy Share Image
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I'm dependent on writing for a living, so really it's to my advantage to understand how the creative process works. One of… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
The violent reaction on the recent development of modern physics can only be understood when one realises that here the foundations of… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
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Scientists contribute in a variety of ways and I don't think I can singular one even including [Albert] Einstein, that I can… — Ahmed H. Zewail Copy Share Image
A work of art is full of perhapses and maybesos. Where the perhapses are found, something has to be done about it.… — John Marin Copy Share Image
With the ministry's motto 'Research on a Shoestring' emblazoned on his coat of arms, he has to struggle with a treasury more… — Harold Wilson Copy Share Image
In an address before the "Academia," which had been organized to combat "science falsely so called," Cardinal Manning declared his abhorrence of… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
Psychology, as the behaviorist views it, is a purely objective, experimental branch of natural science which needs introspection as little as do… — John B. Watson Copy Share Image
The development doctrines are doing much harm on both sides of the Atlantic, especially among intelligent mechanics, and a class of young… — Hugh Miller Copy Share Image
“Knowing what you’re aiming for is essential. In a famous study of Yale University students, researchers found that only 3% had written… — Karen McCreadie Copy Share Image
Of what use are the great number of petrifactions, of different species, shape and form which are dug up by naturalists? Perhaps… — Carl Linnaeus Copy Share Image
“But we must not forget that all things in the world are connected with one another and depend on one another, and… — Ernst Mach Copy Share Image
If the theory accurately predicts what they [scientists] see, it confirms that it's a good theory. If they see something that the… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
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![“If [science] tends to thicken the crust of ice on which, as it were, we are skating, it is all right. If it tries to find, or professes to have found, the solid ground at the bottom of the water it is all wrong. Our business is with the thickening of this crust by extending our knowledge downward…” quote by Samuel Butler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cad/samuel-butler-823_bottom_if-science-tends-to-thicken-the-crust-of_1086221.jpg)
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![“If the theory accurately predicts what they [scientists] see, it confirms that it's a good theory. If they see something that the theory didn't lead them to believe, that's what Thomas Kuhn calls an anomaly. The anomaly requires a revised theory - and you just keep going through the cycle, making…” quote by Clayton Christensen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c34/clayton-christensen-2433_anomalies_if-the-theory-accurately-predicts-what-t_1821068.png)
