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Every great scientist becomes a great scientist because of the inner self-abnegation with which he stands before truth, saying: "Not my will, but thine, be… — Harry Emerson Fosdick
For the sake of our children and our future, we must do more to combat climate change. Now, it's true that no single event makes… — Barack Obama
If it is a terrifying thought that life is at the mercy of the multiplication of these minute bodies [microbes], it is a consoling hope… — Louis Pasteur
Nothing before had ever made me thoroughly realise, though I had read various scientific books, that science consists in grouping facts so that general laws… — Charles Darwin
Nothing tends so much to the corruption of science as to suffer it to stagnate; these waters must be troubled before they can exert their… — Edmund Burke
Science even more than the Gospel teaches us humility. She cannot look down on anything, she does not know what superiority means, she despises nothing,… — Alexander Herzen
Science had better not free the minds of men too much, before it has tamed their instincts. — Jean Rostand
Science is founded on uncertainty. Each time we learn something new and surprising, the astonishment comes with the realization that we were wrong before. — Lewis Thomas
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
Srinivasa Ramanujan was the strangest man in all of mathematics, probably in the entire history of science. He has been compared to a bursting supernova,… — Michio Kaku
The man of true genius never lives before his time, he never undertakes impossibilities, and always embarks on his enterprise at the suitable place and… — Joseph Henry
The United States pledges before you-and therefore before the world-its determination to help solve the fearful atomic dilemma-to devote its entire heart and mind to… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
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
I therefore took this opportunity and also began to consider the possibility that the Earth moved. Although it seemed an absurd opinion, nevertheless, because I… — Nicolaus Copernicus
Mr Hooke sent, in his next letter [to Sir Isaac Newton] the whole of his Hypothesis, scil that the gravitation was reciprocall to the square… — John Aubrey
Propose theories which can be criticized. Think about possible decisive falsifying experiments-crucial experiments. But do not give up your theories too easily-not, at any rate,… — Karl Popper
Science has so accustomed us to devising and accepting theories to account for the facts we observe, however fantastic, that our minds must begin their… — Gene Wolfe
To come very near to a true theory, and to grasp its precise application, are two different things, as the history of science teaches us.… — Alfred North Whitehead
Let us be well assured of the Matter of Fact, before we trouble our selves with enquiring into the Cause. It is true, that this… — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
Thought experiment is in any case a necessary precondition for physical experiment. Every experimenter and inventor must have the planned arrangement in his head before… — Ernst Mach

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