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In the expressions we adopt to prescribe physical phenomena we necessarily hover between two extremes. We either have to choose a word which implies more…
— Arthur Schuster
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According to my views, aiming at quantitative investigations, that is at establishing relations between measurements of phenomena, should take first place in the experimental practice…
— Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
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As followers of natural science we know nothing of any relation between thoughts and the brain, except as a gross correlation in time and space.
— Charles Scott Sherrington
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In the final, the positive, state, the mind has given over the vain search after absolute notions, the origin and destination of the universe, and…
— Auguste Comte
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With crystals we are in a situation similar to an attempt to investigate an optical grating merely from the spectra it produces... But a knowledge…
— Max von Laue
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This [the opening of the Vatican City radio station built by Marconi earlier in 1931] was a new demonstration of the harmony between science and…
— Pope Pius XI
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[Presently, science undergraduates] do not learn to write clearly and briefly, marshalling their points in due and aesthetically satisfying order, and eliminating inessentials. They are…
— William Lawrence Bragg
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For the first time there was constructed with this machine [locomotive engine] a self-acting mechanism in which the interplay of forces took shape transparently enough…
— Carl Ludwig
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But, contrary to the lady's prejudices about the engineering profession, the fact is that quite some time ago the tables were turned between theory and…
— Unknown Author
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No theory ever agrees with all the facts in its domain, yet it is not always the theory that is to blame. Facts are constituted…
— Paul Feyerabend
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Until now, physical theories have been regarded as merely models with approximately describe the reality of nature. As the models improve, so the fit between…
— Paul Davies
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I am ever more intrigued by the correspondence between mathematics and physical facts. The adaptability of mathematics to the description of physical phenomena is uncanny.
— Nicolaas Bloembergen
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We live in a world where unfortunately the distinction between true and false appears to become increasingly blurred by manipulation of facts, by exploitation of…
— Unknown Author
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The main thing between you and God is not so much your sins; it's your damnable good works.
— John Gerstner
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The investigation of causal relations between economic phenomena presents many problems of peculiar difficulty, and offers many opportunities for fallacious conclusions. Since the statistician can…
— Unknown Author
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Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently ... It is that which feels & discovers what is, the REAL which we see not, which exists not…
— Ada Lovelace
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I have never quite understood the relationship between beauty and weakness, womanly sweetness and womanly silliness; to my mind, indeed, that woman being the most…
— Eliza Lynn Linton
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In whatever one does there must be a relationship between the eye and the heart.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
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The division between faith and reason is a half-measure, till it is frankly admitted that faith has to do with fiction, and reason with fact.
— Leslie Stephen
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A scientific discovery is also a religious discovery. There is no conflict between science and religion. Our knowledge of God is made larger with every…
— Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr.
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