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Politicians, real-estate agents, used-car salesmen, and advertising copy-writers are expected to stretch facts in self-serving directions, but scientists who falsify their results are regarded by… — Martin Gardner
Scientists have been struck by the fact that things that break down virtually never get lost, while things that get lost hardly ever break down. — Russell Baker
Scientists often have a naive faith that if only they could discover enough facts about a problem, these facts would somehow arrange themselves in a… — Theodosius Dobzhansky
Sir Arthur Eddington deduces religion from the fact that atoms do not obey the laws of mathematics. Sir James Jeans deduces it from the fact… — Bertrand Russell
The air of caricature never fails to show itself in the products of reason applied relentlessly and without correction. The observation of clinical facts would… — Wilfred Trotter
The facts, gentlemen, and nothing but the facts, for careful eyes are narrowly watching. — Isaac Asimov
The fatal futility of Fact. — Henry James
The love of experiment was very strong in him [Charles Darwin], and I can remember the way he would say, "I shan't be easy till… — Francis Darwin
The man of science dissects the statement, verifies the facts, and demonstrates connection even where he cannot its purpose. — Margaret Fuller
The rules of scientific investigation always require us, when we enter the domains of conjecture, to adopt that hypothesis by which the greatest number of… — Matthew Fontaine Maury
The safest words are always those which bring us most directly to facts. — Charles Henry Parkhurst
The scientific method of examining facts is not peculiar to one class of phenomena and to one class of workers; it is applicable to social… — Karl Pearson
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
Till facts be grouped and called there can be no prediction. The only advantage of discovering laws is to foretell what will happen and to… — Charles Darwin
To her [Florence Nightingale] chiefly I owed the awakening to the fact that sanitation is the supreme goal of medicine its foundation and its crown. — Elizabeth Blackwell
To speculate without facts is to attempt to enter a house of which one has not the key, by wandering aimlessly round and round, searching… — Julian Huxley
To sum up all, let it be known that science and religion are two identical words. The learned do not suspect this, no more do… — Victor Hugo
We [may] answer the question: "Why is snow white?" by saying, "For the same reason that soap-suds or whipped eggs are white"-in other words, instead… — William James
[I shall not] discuss scientific method, but rather the methods of scientists. We proceed by common sense and ingenuity. There are no rules, only the… — Joel Henry Hildebrand
[Science] is not perfect. It can be misused. It is only a tool. But it is by far the best tool we have, self-correcting, ongoing,… — Carl Sagan
Mere numbers cannot bring out ... the intimate essence of the experiment. This conviction comes naturally when one watches a subject at work. ... What… — Alfred Binet
You must maintain unwavering faith that you can and will prevail in the end, regardless of the difficulties, AND at the same time, have the… — James C. Collins
Dissections daily convince us of our ignorance of disease, and cause us to blush at our prescriptions. What mischief have we done under the belief… — Benjamin Rush
Enormous numbers of people are taken in, or at least beguiled and fascinated, by what seems to me to be unbelievable hocum, and relatively few… — Douglas Hofstadter
I may conclude this chapter by quoting a saying of Professor Agassiz, that whenever a new and startling fact is brought to light in science,… — Charles Lyell

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