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Truth is something that we can attempt to doubt, and then perhaps, after much exertion, discover that part of the doubt is not justified. — Niels Bohr
At first we hope too much and later on, not enough. — Philibert Joseph Roux
It was a great step in science when men became convinced that, in order to understand the nature of things, they must begin by asking,… — James Clerk Maxwell
The progression of physical science is much more connected with your prosperity than is usually imagined. You owe to experimental philosophy some of the most… — Humphry Davy
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
In the history of physics, there have been three great revolutions in thought that first seemed absurd yet proved to be true. The first proposed… — Edward Teller
In the world's history certain inventions and discoveries occurred of peculiar value, on account of their great efficiency in facilitating all other inventions and discoveris.… — Abraham Lincoln
This is only one step in a much larger project. I discovered (no, not me: my team) the function of sugar nucleotides in cell metabolism.… — Luis Federico Leloir
[In the case of research director, Willis R. Whitney, whose style was to give talented investigators as much freedom as possible, you may define "serendipity"… — Irving Langmuir
I also require much time to ponder over the matters themselves, and particularly the principles of mechanics (as the very words: force, time, space, motion… — Heinrich Hertz
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 last two months I have been very busy with my own mathematical speculations, which have cost me much time, without my having reached… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
It seems perfectly clear that Economy, if it is to be a science at all, must be a mathematical science. There exists much prejudice against… — William Stanley Jevons
Reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician's finest weapons. It is a far finer gambit than any chess play:… — G. H. Hardy
Taking mathematics from the beginning of the world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much the better half. — Gottfried Leibniz
The proof given by Wright, that non-adaptive differentiation will occur in small populations owing to "drift," or the chance fixation of some new mutation or… — Julian Huxley
I believe quite simply that the small company of the future will be as much a research organization as it is a manufacturing company. — Edwin Land
Research cannot be forced very much. There is always danger of too much foliage and too little fruit. — Theobald Smith
I have not much interest in anyone's personal history after the tenth year, not even my own. Whatever one was going to be was all… — Katherine Anne Porter
[Locating, from scratch, the gene related to a disease is like] trying to find a burned-out light bulb in a house located somewhere between the… — Francis Collins
People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization. — Agnes Repplier
People have now a-days got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures can do as… — Samuel Johnson
It takes two to write a letter as much as it takes two to make a quarrel. — Elizabeth Drew
A short letter to a distant friend is, in my opinion, an insult like that of a slight bow or cursory salutation - a proof… — Samuel Johnson
There is no more important rule of conduct in the world than this: attach yourself as much as you can to people who are abler… — Georg C. Lichtenberg

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