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It must be conceded that a theory has an important advantage if its basic concepts and fundamental hypotheses are 'close to experience,' and greater confidence… — Albert Einstein
Knowledge is indivisible. When people grow wise in one direction, they are sure to make it easier for themselves to grow wise in other directions… — Isaac Asimov
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
The scientist knows very well that he is approaching ultimate truth only in an asymptotic curve and is barred from ever reaching it; but at… — Konrad Lorenz
In all matters of opinion and science ... the difference between men is ... oftener found to lie in generals than in particulars; and to… — David Hume
Science even more than the Gospel teaches us humility. She cannot look down on anything, she does not know what superiority means, she despises nothing,… — Alexander Herzen
Science has succeeded to poetry, no less in the little walks of children than with men. Is there no possibility of averting this sore evil? — Charles Lamb
Thus science strips off, one after the other, the more or less gross materialisations by which we endeavour to form an objective image of the… — James Clerk Maxwell
Most loss of life and property has been due to the collapse of antiquated and unsafe structures, mostly of brick and other masonry. ... There… — Charles Francis Richter
[Gauss calculated the elements of the planet Ceres] and his analysis proved him to be the first of theoretical astronomers no less than the greatest… — W. W. Rouse Ball
We are ... led to a somewhat vague distinction between what we may call "hard" data and "soft" data. This distinction is a matter of… — Bertrand Russell
When sin lets us alone we may let sin alone; but as sin is never less quiet than when it seems to be most quiet,… — John Owen
In Christ, there is nothing I can do that would make You love me more and nothing I have done that makes You love me… — J. D. Greear
If we ought not to fear mortal truth, still less should we dread scientific truth. In the first place it can not conflict with ethics?… — Henri Poincare
No isolated experiment, however significant in itself, can suffice for the experimental demonstration of any natural phenomenon; for the "one chance in a million" will… — Ronald Fisher
If Watson and I had not discovered the [DNA] structure, instead of being revealed with a flourish it would have trickled out and that its… — Francis Crick
Nature does nothing in vain when less will serve; for Nature is pleased with simplicity and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes. — Isaac Newton
If rich, it is easy enough to conceal our wealth; but, if poor, it is not quite so easy to conceal our poverty. We shall… — Charles Caleb Colton
In his wretched life of less than twenty-seven years Abel accomplished so much of the highest order that one of the leading mathematicians of the… — Eric Temple Bell
In the company of friends, writers can discuss their books, economists the state of the economy, lawyers their latest cases, and businessmen their latest acquisitions,… — Alfred Adler

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