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Nomenclature, the other foundation of botany, should provide the names as soon as the classification is made... If the names are unknown knowledge of the… — Carl Linnaeus
No part of the world can be truly understood without a knowledge of its garment of vegetation, for this determines not only the nature of… — Ellsworth Huntington
The theory of the method of knowing which is advanced in these pages may be termed pragmatic. ... Only that which has been organized into… — John Dewey
We are compelled to drive toward total knowledge, right down to the levels of the neuron and the gene. When we have progressed enough to… — E. O. Wilson
I will frankly tell you that my experience in prolonged scientific investigations convinces me that a belief in God-a God who is behind and within… — Louis Agassiz
If we can combine our knowledge of science with the wisdom of wildness, if we can nurture civilization through roots in the primitive, man's potentialities… — Charles Lindbergh
It is God who is the ultimate reason things, and the Knowledge of God is no less the beginning of science than his essence and… — Gottfried Leibniz
There is scarce any one invention, which this nation has produced in our age, but it has some way or other been set forward by… — Robert Hooke
All knowledge is good. It is impossible to say any fragment of knowledge, however insignificant or remote from one's ordinary pursuits, may not some day… — Thomas Huxley
Knowledge is like a knife. In the hands of a well-balanced adult it is an instrument for good of inestimable value; but in the hands… — Leo Baekeland
I called it ignose, not knowing which carbohydrate it was. This name was turned down by my editor. 'God-nose' was not more successful, so in… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
I conclude that, while it is true that science cannot decide questions of value, that is because they cannot be intellectually decided at all, and… — Bertrand Russell
I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends, as I have moderate civil ends: for I have taken all knowledge to be my province. — Francis Bacon
I have accumulated a wealth of knowledge in innumerable spheres and enjoyed it as an always ready instrument for exercising the mind and penetrating further… — Richard Goldschmidt
I have been asked whether I would agree that the tragedy of the scientist is that he is able to bring about great advances in… — Leo Szilard
I have flown twice over Mount St. Helens out on our West Coast. I'm not a scientist and I don't know the figures, but I… — Ronald Reagan
I have long held an opinion, almost amounting to conviction, in common I believe with many other lovers of natural knowledge, that the various forms… — Michael Faraday
So is not mathematical analysis then not just a vain game of the mind? To the physicist it can only give a convenient language; but… — Henri Poincare
'Facts' are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it. — William James
... in going over the history of all the inventions for which history could be obtained it became more and more clear that in addition… — Reginald Fessenden

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