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The most important discoveries will provide answers to questions that we do not yet know how to ask and will concern objects we have not… — John N. Bahcall
The question whether atoms exist or not... belongs rather to metaphysics. In chemistry we have only to decide whether the assumption of atoms is an… — August Kekule
The science and technology which have advanced man safely into space have brought about startling medical advances for man on earth. Out of space research… — Hubertus Strughold
To stop short in any research that bids fair to widen the gates of knowledge, to recoil from fear of difficulty or adverse criticism, is… — William Crookes
To this day, we see all around us the Promethean drive to omnipotence through technology and to omniscience through science. The effecting of all things… — Gerald Holton
Unanimity of opinion may be fitting for a church, for the frightened or greedy victims of some (ancient, or modern) myth, or for the weak… — Paul Feyerabend
Unfortunately what is little recognized is that the most worthwhile scientific books are those in which the author clearly indicates what he does not know;… — Evariste Galois
We do not live in a time when knowledge can be extended along a pathway smooth and free from obstacles, as at the time of… — Heinrich Burkhardt
We seem to be heading for a state of affairs in which the determination of whether or not Doomsday has arrived will be made either… — Herbert York
We thus begin to see that the institutionalized practice of citations and references in the sphere of learning is not a trivial matter. While many… — Robert K. Merton
Were I asked to define it, I should reply that archeology is that science which enables us to register and classify our knowledge of the… — Amelia B. Edwards
What the founders of modern science, among them Galileo, had to do, was not to criticize and to combat certain faulty theories, and to correct… — Alexandre Koyre
Wisdom is not knowledge, but lies in the use we make of knowledge. — Nilakanta Sri Ram
With crystals we are in a situation similar to an attempt to investigate an optical grating merely from the spectra it produces... But a knowledge… — Max von Laue
The big idea we start with is: "How is the genome interpreted, and how are stable decisions that affect gene expression inherited from one cell… — Shirley M. Tilghman
[Mathematics] is security. Certainty. Truth. Beauty. Insight. Structure. Architecture. I see mathematics, the part of human knowledge that I call mathematics, as one thing-one great,… — Paul Halmos
All good intellects have repeated, since Bacon's time, that there can be no real knowledge but that which is based on observed facts. This is… — Auguste Comte
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
Knowledge is the death of research. — Walther Nernst
There was never much question as to what I was going to do in life, because working with clay was what I could do .… — Charles Simonds

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