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During the century after Newton, it was still possible for a man of unusual attainments to master all fields of scientific knowledge. But by 1800,… — Isaac Asimov
It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment. When I have… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
Our immediate interests are after all of but small moment. It is what we do for the future, what we add to the sum of… — Willis R. Whitney
Amidst the vicissitudes of the earth's surface, species cannot be immortal, but must perish, one after another, like the individuals which compose them. There is… — Charles Lyell
And as to the faculties of the mind, setting aside the arts grounded upon words, and especially that skill of proceeding upon generall, and infallible… — Thomas Hobbes
During my span of life science has become a matter of public concern and the l'art pour l'art standpoint of my youth is now obsolete.… — Max Born
It is in the name of Moses that Bellarmin thunderstrikes Galileo; and this great vulgarizer of the great seeker Copernicus, Galileo, the old man of… — Victor Hugo
Science appears to us with a very different aspect after we have found out that it is not in lecture rooms only, and by means… — James Clerk Maxwell
The weeds of a seemingly learned and brilliant but actually trivial and empty philosophy of Nature which, after having been replaced some 50 years ago… — Hermann Kolbe
Thus science strips off, one after the other, the more or less gross materialisations by which we endeavour to form an objective image of the… — James Clerk Maxwell
Today, nothing is unusual about a scientific discovery's being followed soon after by a technical application: The discovery of electrons led to electronics; fission led… — Edward Teller
After death, life reappears in a different form and with different laws. It is inscribed in the laws of the permanence of life on the… — Louis Pasteur
After that cancellation [of the Superconducting Super Collider in Texas, after $2 billion had been spent on it], we physicists learned that we have to… — Michio Kaku
The generation of seeds ... is therefore marvelous and analogous to the other productions of living things. For first of all an umbilicus appears. ...… — Marcello Malpighi
Through the ages, man's main concern was life after death. Today, for the first time, we find we must ask questions about whether there will… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
If he [Thomas Edison] had a needle to find in a haystack, he would not stop to reason where it was most likely to be,… — Nikola Tesla
On one occasion when [William] Smart found him engrossed with his fundamental theory, he asked Eddington how many people he thought would understand what he… — Arthur Eddington
Longing, breathing, and panting after deliverance is a grace in itself, that has a mighty power to conform the soul into the likeness of the… — John Owen
After he has been following Christ for a long time, the disciple of Jesus will be asked, "Lacked ye anything?" and he will answer "Nothing,… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The first duty of man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
In the higher walks of politics the same sort of thing occurs. The statesman who has gradually concentrated all power within himself ... may have… — Bertrand Russell
Truth is something that we can attempt to doubt, and then perhaps, after much exertion, discover that part of the doubt is not justified. — Niels Bohr
Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing. — Seneca the Younger
I have often had cause to feel that my hands are cleverer than my head. That is a crude way of characterizing the dialectics of… — George Wald
A discovery is like falling in love and reaching the top of a mountain after a hard climb all in one, an ecstasy not induced… — Max Perutz

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