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• Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature. — Luther Burbank
• Scientific method, although in its more refined forms it may seem complicated, is in essence remarkably simply. It consists in observing such… — Bertrand Russell
• Science is the knowledge of constant things, not merely of passing events, and is properly less the knowledge of general laws than… — John Ruskin
• Nothing before had ever made me thoroughly realise, though I had read various scientific books, that science consists in grouping facts so… — Charles Darwin
• The animal kingdom exhibits a series of mental developments which may be regarded as antecedents to the mental development of man, for… — Wilhelm Wundt
• The simplicity of nature is not to be measured by that of our conceptions. Infinitely varied in its effects, nature is simple… — Pierre-Simon Laplace
• My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts, but why… — Charles Darwin
• Indeed men too often take upon themselves in the prosecution of their revenge to set the example of doing away with those… — Thucydides
• If it had not been for the pernicious power of envy, men would not so have exalted vengeance above innocence and profit… — Thucydides
• All violation of established practice implies in its own nature a rejection of the common opinion, a defiance of common censure, and… — Samuel Johnson
• Biology occupies a position among the sciences at once marginal and central. Marginal because-the living world constituting but a tiny and very… — Jacques Monod
• . . . as to moral feeling, this supposed special sense, the appeal to it is indeed superficial when those who cannot… — Immanuel Kant

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