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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
The first business of a man of science is to proclaim the truth as he finds it, and let the world adjust itself as best… — Percy Williams Bridgman
The first thing the reasonable man must do is to be content with a very little knowledge and a very great deal of ignorance. The… — Arthur David Ritchie
Bacon first taught the world the true method of the study of nature, and rescued science from that barbarism in which the followers of Aristotle,… — Thomas Young
Belief has no place as far as science reaches, and may be first permitted to take root where science stops. — Rudolf Virchow
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
There was, I think, a feeling that the best science was that done in the simplest way. In experimental work, as in mathematics, there was… — Unknown Author
Disease is not something personal and special, but only a manifestation of life under modified conditions, operating according to the same laws as apply to… — Rudolf Virchow
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
For if as scientists we seek simplicity, then obviously we try the simplest surviving theory first, and retreat from it only when it proves false.… — Nelson Goodman
I was there when Abbe Georges Lemaître first proposed this [Big Bang] theory. ... There is no rational reason to doubt that the universe has… — Hannes Alfven
It surely can be no offence to state, that the progress of science has led to new views, and that the consequences that can be… — Henry De la Beche
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
The Unexpected stalks a farm in big boots like a vagrant bent on havoc. Not every farmer is an inventor, but the good ones have… — Verlyn Klinkenborg
The determination of the relationship and mutual dependence of the facts in particular cases must be the first goal of the Physicist; and for this… — Franz Karl Achard
Philosophy would long ago have reached a high level if our predecessors and fathers had put this into practice; and we would not waste time… — Marin Mersenne
I have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that this delicate motion should reside in all the things around us, revealing… — Edward Mills Purcell
In my first publication I might have claimed that I had come to the conclusion, as a result of serious study of the literature and… — Alexander Fleming
It is the lone worker who makes the first advance in a subject: the details may be worked out by a team, but the prime… — Alexander Fleming
Imagine a person with a gift of ridicule [He might say] First that a negative quantity has no logarithm; secondly that a negative quantity has… — Augustus De Morgan
Lagrange, in one of the later years of his life, imagined that he had overcome the difficulty (of the parallel axiom). He went so far… — Augustus De Morgan
There have been many authorities who have asserted that the basis of science lies in counting or measuring, i.e. in the use of mathematics. Neither… — Unknown Author
But the World being once fram'd, and the course of Nature establish'd, the Naturalist, (except in some few cases, where God, or Incorporeal Agents interpose),… — Robert Boyle
I sometimes think about the tower at Pisa as the first particle accelerator, a (nearly) vertical linear accelerator that Galileo used in his studies. — Leon M. Lederman
The first task is to get to know the players really well-watching them as individuals in training and in match play-to see what is good… — Helenio Herrera

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