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And this is the ultimate lesson that our knowledge of the mode of transmission of typhus has taught us: Man carries on his skin a… — Charles Nicolle
As followers of natural science we know nothing of any relation between thoughts and the brain, except as a gross correlation in time and space. — Charles Scott Sherrington
As was the case for Nobel's own invention of dynamite, the uses that are made of increased knowledge can serve both beneficial and potentially harmful… — Nicolaas Bloembergen
At a given instant everything the surgeon knows suddenly becomes important to the solution of the problem. You can't do it an hour later, or… — John W. Kirklin
Each time one of the medicine men dies, it's as if a library has burned down. — Mark Plotkin
Either one or the other [analysis or synthesis] may be direct or indirect. The direct procedure is when the point of departure is known-direct synthesis… — Andre-Marie Ampere
Equations seem like treasures, spotted in the rough by some discerning individual, plucked and examined, placed in the grand storehouse of knowledge, passed on from… — Robert P. Crease
Frequently, I have been asked if an experiment I have planned is pure or applied science; to me it is more important to know if… — William Shockley
From the physician, as emphatically the student of Nature, is expected not only an inquiry into cause, but an investigation of the whole empire of… — John Gorrie
I believe that we do not know anything for certain, but everything probably. — Christiaan Huygens
I do not believe there is anything useful which men can know with exactitude that they cannot know by arithmetic and algebra. — Nicolas Malebranche
If physicists could not quote in the text, they would not feel that much was lost with respect to advancement of knowledge of the natural… — J. H. Hexter
If popular medicine gave the people wisdom as well as knowledge, it would be the best protection for scientific and well-trained physicians. — Rudolf Virchow
If the question were, "What ought to be the next objective in science?" my answer would be the teaching of science to the young, so… — Elihu Thomson
If we would serve science, we must extend her limits, not only as far as our own knowledge is concerned, but in the estimation of… — Rudolf Virchow
In an examination those who do not wish to know ask questions of those who cannot tell. — Walter Alexander Raleigh
In order to survive, an animal must be born into a favoring or at least tolerant environment. Similarly, in order to achieve preservation and recognition,… — Earnest Hooton
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
In vertebrate paleontology, increasing knowledge leads to triumphant loss of clarity. — Alfred Romer

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