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I have tried to read philosophers of all ages and have found many illuminating ideas but no steady progress toward deeper knowledge and understanding. Science,… — Max Born
I think the next [21st] century will be the century of complexity. We have already discovered the basic laws that govern matter and understand all… — Stephen Hawking
It is the responsibility of scientists never to suppress knowledge, no matter how awkward that knowledge is, no matter how it may bother those in… — Carl Sagan
Men will gather knowledge no matter what the consequences. Science will go on whether we are pessimistic or optimistic, as I am. More interesting discoveries… — Linus Pauling
Now, in the development of our knowledge of the workings of Nature out of the tremendously complex assemblage of phenomena presented to the scientific inquirer,… — Oliver Heaviside
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
The life and soul of science is its practical application, and just as the great advances in mathematics have been made through the desire of… — Lord Kelvin
You sometimes speak of gravity as essential and inherent to matter. Pray do not ascribe that notion to me, for the cause of gravity is… — Isaac Newton
Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to [money… — William Cobbett
During my span of life science has become a matter of public concern and the l'art pour l'art standpoint of my youth is now obsolete.… — Max Born
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
It is unreasonable to expect science to produce a system of ethics-ethics are a kind of highway code for traffic among mankind-and the fact that… — Sigmund Freud
Science appears to us with a very different aspect after we have found out that it is not in lecture rooms only, and by means… — James Clerk Maxwell
The Good Spirit never cared for the colleges, and though all men and boys were now drilled in Greek, Latin, and Mathematics, it had quite… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
When the aggregate amount of solid matter transported by rivers in a given number of centuries from a large continent, shall be reduced to arithmetical… — Charles Lyell
Where lies the line between sorcery and science? It is only a matter of terminology, my friend. — Alan Dean Foster
It is impossible to encircle the hips of a girl with my right arm and hold her smile in my left hand, then proceed to… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
All living organisms are but leaves on the same tree of life. The various functions of plants and animals and their specialized organs are manifestations… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
From all we have learnt about the structure of living matter, we must be prepared to find it working in a manner that cannot be… — Erwin Schrodinger
It is mere rubbish thinking, at present, of origin of life; one might as well think of origin of matter. — Charles Darwin
To be born, to live and to die is merely to change forms... And what does one form matter any more than another?... Each form… — John Dewey
What would life be without art? Science prolongs life. To consist of what-eating, drinking, and sleeping? What is the good of living longer if it… — Sarah Bernhardt
Facts are of not much use, considered as facts. They bewilder by their number and their apparent incoherency. Let them be digested into theory, however,… — Oliver Heaviside
It is the facts that matter, not the proofs. Physics can progress without the proofs, but we can't go on without the facts ... if… — Richard P. Feynman
Let us be well assured of the Matter of Fact, before we trouble our selves with enquiring into the Cause. It is true, that this… — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

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