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It is the very strangeness of nature that makes science engrossing. That ought to be at the center of science teaching. There are more than…
— Lewis Thomas
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I am stealing the golden vessels of the Egyptians to build a tabernacle to my God from them, far far away from the boundaries of…
— Johannes Kepler
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If I go out into nature, into the unknown, to the fringes of knowledge, everything seems mixed up and contradictory, illogical, and incoherent. This is…
— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
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It is not his possession of knowledge, of irrefutable truth, that makes the man of science, but his persistent and recklessly critical quest for truth.
— Karl Popper
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We do not ask what hope of gain makes a little bird warble, since we know that it takes delight in singing because it is…
— Johannes Kepler
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For the sake of our children and our future, we must do more to combat climate change. Now, it's true that no single event makes…
— Barack Obama
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If, in the course of a thousand or two thousand years, science arrives at the necessity of renewing its points of view, that will not…
— Adolf Hitler
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Science makes people reach selflessly for truth and objectivity; it teaches people to accept reality, with wonder and admiration, not to mention the deep awe…
— Lise Meitner
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The extraordinary development of modern science may be her undoing. Specialism, now a necessity, has fragmented the specialities themselves in a way that makes the…
— William Osler
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The constancy of the internal environment is the condition for free and independent life: the mechanism that makes it possible is that which assured the…
— Claude Bernard
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[For] men to whom nothing seems great but reason ... nature ... is a cosmos, so admirable, that to penetrate to its ways seems to…
— Charles Sanders Peirce
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The old scientific ideal of episteme - of absolutely certain, demonstrable knowledge - has proved to be an idol. The demand for scientific objectivity makes…
— Karl Popper
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There is no great harm in the theorist who makes up a new theory to fit a new event. But the theorist who starts with…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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We can invent as many theories we like, and any one of them can be made to fit the facts. But that theory is always…
— Albert Einstein
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It seems to me that every phenomenon, every fact, itself is the really interesting object. Whoever explains it, or connects it with other events, usually…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Medicine makes people ill, mathematics make them sad and theology makes them sinful.
— Martin Luther
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Let not that man think he makes any progress in holiness who walks not over the bellies of his lusts. He who doth not kill…
— John Owen
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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
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I happen to be a kind of monkey. I have a monkeylike curiosity that makes me want to feel, smell, and taste things which arouse…
— Willis R. Whitney
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There is more evidence to prove that saltness [of the sea] is due to the admixture of some substance, besides that which we have adduced.…
— Aristotle
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You may tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not…
— Francis Pharcellus Church
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I have been speculating last night what makes a man a discoverer of undiscovered things; and a most perplexing problem it is. Many men who…
— Charles Darwin
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The current financial crisis makes it very clears that the system that we have isn't really working, and this is the right time for us…
— Muhammad Yunus
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The physician heals, Nature makes well.
— Aristotle
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Nothing is accomplished all at once, and it is one of my great maxims, and one of the most completely verified, that Nature makes no…
— Gottfried Leibniz
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