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Peter Keating: "Do you always have to have a purpose? Do you always have to be so damn serious? Can't you ever do things without… — Ayn Rand
An old man who cannot bid farewell to life appears as feeble and sickly as the young man who is unable to embrace it. — Carl Jung
Quantum mechanics is certainly imposing. But an inner voice tells me that this is not yet the real thing. The theory says a lot, but… — Albert Einstein
Some things mankind can finish and be done with, but not ... science, that persists, and changes from ancient Chaldeans studying the stars to a… — Harry Emerson Fosdick
The mere man of pleasure is miserable in old age, and the mere drudge in business is but little better, whereas, natural philosophy, mathematical and… — Thomas Paine
...while science gives us implements to use, science alone does not determine for what ends they will be employed. Radio is an amazing invention. Yet… — Harry Emerson Fosdick
It is in the name of Moses that Bellarmin thunderstrikes Galileo; and this great vulgarizer of the great seeker Copernicus, Galileo, the old man of… — Victor Hugo
Science corrects the old creeds, sweeps away, with every new perception, our infantile catechisms, and necessitates a faith commensurate with the grander orbits and universal… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Science surpasses the old miracles of mythology. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The body of science is not, as it is sometimes thought, a huge coherent mass of facts, neatly arranged in sequence, each one attached to… — Lewis Thomas
The sciences are found, like Hercules's oxen, by tracing them backward; and old sciences are unravelled like old stockings, by beginning at the foot. — Jonathan Swift
I think if a physician wrote on a death certificate that old age was the cause of death, he'd be thrown out of the union.… — George Wald
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
We may affirm of Mr. Buffon, that which has been said of the chemists of old; though he may have failed in attaining his principal… — Oliver Goldsmith
Nothing could have been worse for the development of my mind than Dr. Butler's school, as it was strictly classical, nothing else being taught, except… — Charles Darwin
Spiritual wisdom consists in finding out the subtleties, policies, and depths of any indwelling sin... to trace this serpent in all its turnings and windings;… — John Owen
A new truth is a truth, an old error is an error. — Benjamin Franklin
It is not so difficult a task as to plant new truths, as to root out old errors — Charles Caleb Colton
It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of men. The time… — Arthur C. Clarke
The old saying of the two kinds of truth. To the one kind belongs statements so simple and clear that the opposite assertion obviously could… — Niels Bohr
There was a golden period that I look back upon with great regret, in which the cheapest of experimental animals were medical students. Graduate students… — George Wald
If any human being earnestly desire to push on to new discoveries instead of just retaining and using the old; to win victories over Nature… — Francis Bacon
No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks. — Isaac Newton
I went to the trash pile at Tuskegee Institute and started my laboratory with bottles, old fruit jars and any other thing I found I… — George Washington Carver
It is idle to expect any great advancement in science from the superinducing and engrafting of new things upon old. We must begin anew from… — Francis Bacon

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