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As the growing emphasis on feelings crowds out reason, facts will play a smaller role in public discourse. — Paul Craig Roberts
Public schools are government-established, politician- and bureaucrat-controlled, fully politicized, taxpayer-supported, authoritarian socialist institutions. In fact, the public-school system is one of the purest examples of… — Unknown Author
The power of a movement lies in the fact that it can indeed change the habits of people. This change is not the result of… — Steven Biko
The day when the scientist, no matter how devoted, may make significant progress alone and without material help is past. This fact is most self-evident… — Ernest Lawrence
It has occurred to me that possibly the white corpuscles may have the office of picking up and digesting bacterial organisms when by any means… — Unknown Author
As a progressive discipline [biochemistry] belongs to the present century. From the experimental physiologists of the last century it obtained a charter, and, from a… — Frederick Gowland Hopkins
My main thesis will be that in the study of the intermediate processes of metabolism we have to deal not with complex substances which elude… — Frederick Gowland Hopkins
Generally speaking, geologists seem to have been much more intent on making little worlds of their own, than in examining the crust of that which… — Henry De la Beche
With respect to those points, on which the declaration of Scripture is positive and decisive, as, for instance, in asserting the low antiquity of the… — William Buckland
[The] first postulate of the Principle of Uniformity, namely, that the laws of nature are invariant with time, is not peculiar to that principle or… — M. King Hubbert
A man who is all theory is like "a rudderless ship on a shoreless sea." ... Theories and speculations may be indulged in with safety… — Elisha Gray
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
In the natural sciences, and particularly in chemistry, generalities must come after the detailed knowledge of each fact and not before it. — Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
Isolated facts and experiments have in themselves no value, however great their number may be. They only become valuable in a theoretical or practical point… — Hermann von Helmholtz
I do not believe that the present flowering of science is due in the least to a real appreciation of the beauty and intellectual discipline… — Derek Barton
Paradoxical as it may at first appear, the fact is that, as W. H. George has said, scientific research is an art, not a science. — William Ian Beardmore Beveridge
Philosophers, if they have much imagination, are apt to let it loose as well as other people, and in such cases are sometimes led to… — Unknown Author
Science would not be what it is if there had not been a Galileo, a Newton or a Lavoisier, any more than music would be… — Unknown Author
We regard as 'scientific' a method based on deep analysis of facts, theories, and views, presupposing unprejudiced, unfearing open discussion and conclusions. The complexity and… — Andrei Sakharov
[Young] was afterwards accustomed to say, that at no period of his life was he particularly fond of repeating experiments, or even of very frequently… — Unknown Author
All good intellects have repeated, since Bacon's time, that there can be no real knowledge but that which is based on observed facts. This is… — Auguste Comte
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
From the point of view of the pure morphologist the recapitulation theory is an instrument of research enabling him to reconstruct probable lines of descent;… — Unknown Author
In chemistry, our theories are crutches; to show that they are valid, they must be used to walk... A theory established with the help of… — Jean-Baptiste Dumas
In fact, Gentlemen, no geometry without arithmetic, no mechanics without geometry... you cannot count upon success, if your mind is not sufficiently exercised on the… — Unknown Author

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