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Only to often on meeting scientific men, even those of genuine distiction, one finds that they are dull fellows and very stupid. They know one… — H. L. Mencken
Our confused wish finds expression in the confused question as to the nature of force and electricity. But the answer which we want is not… — Heinrich Hertz
Our immediate interests are after all of but small moment. It is what we do for the future, what we add to the sum of… — Willis R. Whitney
Our knowledge springs from two fundamental sources of the mind; the first is the capacity of receiving representations (receptivity for impressions), the second is the… — Immanuel Kant
Philosophy is that part of science which at present people chose to have opinions about, but which they have no knowledge about. Therefore every advance… — Bertrand Russell
Philosophy stands in need of a science which shall determine the possibility, principles, and extent of human knowledge Ã priori. — Immanuel Kant
Positivism stands or falls with the principle of scientism, that is that the meaning of knowledge is defined by what the sciences do and can… — Jurgen Habermas
Remember that accumulated knowledge, like accumulated capital, increases at compound interest: but it differs from the accumulation of capital in this; that the increase of… — Charles Babbage
Research is industrial prospecting. The oil prospectors use every scientific means to find new paying wells. Oil is found by each one of a number… — Charles Kettering
Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance. — Hippocrates
Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. Nearly all men of science, all men of learning for that matter, and men of simple ways… — Vannevar Bush
Science is the knowledge of constant things, not merely of passing events, and is properly less the knowledge of general laws than of existing facts. — John Ruskin
Science is the one human activity that is truly progressive. The body of positive knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation. — Edwin Powell Hubble
Science is what we know, and philosophy is what we don't know. — Bertrand Russell
Science itself is badly in need of integration and unification. The tendency is more and more the other way ... Only the graduate student, poor… — Isidor Isaac Rabi
Science should leave off making pronouncements: the river of knowledge has too often turned back on itself. — James Jeans
Sciences usually advances by a succession of small steps, through a fog in which even the most keen-sighted explorer can seldom see more than a… — James Jeans
Scientia potentia est, sed parva; quia scientia egregia rara est, nec proinde apparens nisi paucissimis, et in paucis rebus. Scientiae enim ea natura est, ut… — Thomas Hobbes
Scientific knowledge advances haltingly and is stimulated by contention and doubt. — Claude Levi-Strauss
Simplification of modes of proof is not merely an indication of advance in our knowledge of a subject, but is also the surest guarantee of… — Lord Kelvin

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