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It was not by accident that the greatest thinkers of all ages were deeply religious souls.
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The man who cannot occasionally imagine events and conditions of existence that are contrary to the causal principle as he knows it…
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The assumption of an absolute determinism is the essential foundation of every scientific enquiry.
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The whole strenuous intellectual work of an industrious research worker would appear, after all, in vain and hopeless, if he were not…
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We cannot rest and sit down lest we rust and decay. Health is maintained only through work. And as it is with…
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New scientific ideas never spring from a communal body, however organized, but rather from the head of an individually inspired researcher who…
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As a man who has devoted his whole life to the most clear headed science, to the study of matter, I can…
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Hitherto the principle of causality was universally accepted as an indispensable postulate of scientific research, but now we are told by some…
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The goal is nothing other than the coherence and completeness of the system not only in respect of all details, but also…
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I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about,…
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This is one of man's oldest riddles. How can the independence of human volition be harmonized with the fact that we are…
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Those [scientists] who dislike entertaining contradictory thoughts are unlikely to enrich their science with new ideas.
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All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact…
— Roger Bacon
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Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.
— William Blake
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In 1847 I gave an address at Newton, Mass., before a Teachers' Institute conducted by Horace Mann. My subject was grasshoppers. I…
— Louis Agassiz
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Of all the intellectual faculties, judgment is the last to mature. A child under the age of fifteen should confine its attention…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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In natural science the principles of truth ought to be confirmed by observation.
— Carl Linnaeus
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Let us not fear that the issues of natural science shall be scepticism or anarchy. Through all God's works there runs a…
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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The conclusion forced upon me in the course of a life devoted to natural science is that the universe as it is…
— John B. S. Haldane
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Man carries the world in his head, the whole astronomy and chemistry suspended in a thought. Because the history of nature is…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Reason must approach nature with the view, indeed, of receiving information from it, not, however, in the character of a pupil, who…
— Immanuel Kant
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The scientific value of truth is not, however, ultimate or absolute. It rests partly on practical, partly on aesthetic interests. As our…
— George Santayana
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The morphological characteristics of plant and animal species form the chief subject of the descriptive natural sciences and are the criteria for…
— Karl Landsteiner
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I also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science must be acquired, in the first instance, through mastery of medicine alone.
— Hippocrates
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