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Unless the structure of the nucleus has a surprise in store for us, the conclusion seems plain-there is nothing in the whole system if laws… — Arthur Eddington
We need only reflect on what has been prov'd at large, that we are never sensible of any connexion betwixt causes and effects, and that… — David Hume
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
Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense-experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought. — Albert Einstein
You look at science (or at least talk of it) as some sort of demoralising invention of man, something apart from real life, and which… — Rosalind Franklin
Life is short, and the Art long; the occasion fleeting; experience fallacious, and judgment difficult. The physician must not only be prepared to do what… — Hippocrates
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
The theoretical idea ... does not arise apart from and independent of experience; nor can it be derived from experience by a purely logical procedure.… — Albert Einstein
Experience of actual fact either teaches fools or abolishes them. — Thomas Carlyle
No true geologist holds by the development hypothesis;-it has been resigned to sciolists and smatterers;-and there is but one other alternative. They began to be,… — Hugh Miller
But the best demonstration by far is experience, if it go not beyond the actual experiment. — Francis Bacon
Charles Babbage proposed to make an automaton chess-player which should register mechanically the number of games lost and gained in consequence of every sort of… — William Stanley Jevons
For the better part of my last semester at Garden City High, I constructed a physical pendulum and used it to make a "precision" measurement… — Steven Chu
The prediction of nuclear winter is drawn not, of course, from any direct experience with the consequences of global nuclear war, but rather from an… — Carl Sagan
A great discovery solves a great problem, but there is a grain of discovery in the solution of any problem. Your problem may be modest,… — George Polya
Our novice runs the risk of failure without additional traits: a strong inclination toward originality, a taste for research, and a desire to experience the… — Santiago Ramon y Cajal
For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that can alone answer the question: What is mathematics? — Richard Courant
How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought which is independent of experience, is so admirably appropriate to the… — Albert Einstein
The science of mathematics presents the most brilliant example of how pure reason may successfully enlarge its domain without the aid of experience — Immanuel Kant
One can be bored until boredom becomes a mystical experience. — Logan Pearsall Smith

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