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After Gibbs, one the most distinguished [American scientists] was Langley, of the Smithsonian. ... He had the physicist's heinous fault of professing to know nothing… — Henry Adams
One of the great problems of philosophy, is the relationship between the realm of knowledge and the realm of values. Knowledge is what is; values… — Jacques Monod
Our confused wish finds expression in the confused question as to the nature of force and electricity. But the answer which we want is not… — Heinrich Hertz
I grew up to be indifferent to the distinction between literature and science, which in my teens were simply two languages for experience that I… — Jacob Bronowski
In all matters of opinion and science ... the difference between men is ... oftener found to lie in generals than in particulars; and to… — David Hume
Mathematics is the study of analogies between analogies. All science is. Scientists want to show that things that don't look alike are really the same.… — Gian-Carlo Rota
No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power. ... The time has come to consider how we might bring… — Jacob Bronowski
Science no longer is in the position of observer of nature, but rather recognizes itself as part of the interplay between man and nature. The… — Werner Heisenberg
The aim of science is not things themselves, as the dogmatists in their simplicity imagine, but the relation between things. — Henri Poincare
The aim of science is, on the one hand, as complete a comprehension as possible of the connection between perceptible experiences in their totality, and,… — Albert Einstein
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
Where lies the line between sorcery and science? It is only a matter of terminology, my friend. — Alan Dean Foster
Every chemical substance, whether natural or artificial, falls into one of two major categories, according to the spatial characteristic of its form. The distinction is… — Louis Pasteur
Life ... is a relationship between molecules. — Linus Pauling
Life, this anti-entropy, ceaselessly reloaded with energy, is a climbing force, toward order amidst chaos, toward light, among the darkness of the indefinite, toward the… — Albert Claude
Now I must take you to a very interesting part of our subject-to the relation between the combustion of a candle and that living kind… — Michael Faraday
Truth and falsity, indeed understanding, is not necessarily something purely intellectual, remote from feelings and attitudes. ... It is in the total conduct of men… — Max Wertheimer
In point of fact, no conclusive disproof of a theory can ever be produced; for it is always possible to say that the experimental results… — Karl Popper
It is more important to have beauty in one's equations than to have them fit experiment... It seems that if one is working from the… — Paul Dirac
The experimental investigation by which Ampere established the law of the mechanical action between electric currents is one of the most brilliant achievements in science.… — James Clerk Maxwell

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