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Geneticists believe that anthropologists have decided what a race is. Ethnologists assume that their classifications embody principles which genetic science has proved correct. Politicians believe… — Lancelot Hogben
Within a hundred years of physical and chemical science, men will know what the atom is. It is my belief when science reaches this stage,… — Marcellin Berthelot
In the expressions we adopt to prescribe physical phenomena we necessarily hover between two extremes. We either have to choose a word which implies more… — Arthur Schuster
Much as I admired the elegance of physical theories, which at that time geology wholly lacked, I preferred a life in the woods to one… — John Tuzo Wilson
To this day, we see all around us the Promethean drive to omnipotence through technology and to omniscience through science. The effecting of all things… — Gerald Holton
The theoretical side of physical chemistry is and will probably remain the dominant one; it is by this peculiarity that it has exerted such a… — Svante Arrhenius
Life itself is but the expression of a sum of phenomena, each of which follows the ordinary physical and chemical laws. — Rudolf Virchow
But, contrary to the lady's prejudices about the engineering profession, the fact is that quite some time ago the tables were turned between theory and… — Unknown Author
If the aim of physical theories is to explain experimental laws, theoretical physics is not an autonomous science; it is subordinate to metaphysics. — Pierre Duhem
In 1975, ... [speaking with Shiing Shen Chern], I told him I had finally learned ... the beauty of fiber-bundle theory and the profound Chern-Weil… — Chen-Ning Yang
Since the beginning of physics, symmetry considerations have provided us with an extremely powerful and useful tool in our effort to understand nature. Gradually they… — Tsung-Dao Lee
Until now, physical theories have been regarded as merely models with approximately describe the reality of nature. As the models improve, so the fit between… — Paul Davies
I am ever more intrigued by the correspondence between mathematics and physical facts. The adaptability of mathematics to the description of physical phenomena is uncanny. — Nicolaas Bloembergen
The great problem of today is, how to subject all physical phenomena to dynamical laws. With all the experimental devices, and all the mathematical appliances… — Unknown Author
Nature seems to take advantage of the simple mathematical representations of the symmetry laws. When one pauses to consider the elegance and the beautiful perfection… — Chen-Ning Yang
The burgeoning field of computer science has shifted our view of the physical world from that of a collection of interacting material particles to one… — Paul Davies
While, on the one hand, the end of scientific investigation is the discovery of laws, on the other, science will have reached its highest goal… — Unknown Author
The ghostly presence of virtual particles defies rational common sense and is nonintuitive for those unacquainted with physics. Religious belief in God, and Christian belief… — Antony Hewish
It is relatively unusual that a physical scientist is truly an atheist. Why is this true? Some point to the anthropic constraints, the remarkable fine… — Henry F. Schaefer, III
The exquisite order displayed by our scientific understanding of the physical world calls for the divine. — Unknown Author
I believe in God. In fact, I believe in a personal God who acts in and interacts with the creation. I believe that the observations… — William Daniel Phillips
With full responsibility for my words as a professional biologist, I do not hesitate to say that all existing and genuine knowledge about the way… — Lancelot Hogben
[The disarming of citizens] has a double effect, it palsies the hand and brutalizes the mind: a habitual disuse of physical forces totally destroys the… — Joel Barlow
The assertion that 'culture' explains human variation will be taken seriously when there are reports of women war parties raiding villages to capture men as… — John Tooby
a woman who struggles to recover from a brutal attack and sets out on a dark, psychological and physical journey for revenge and justice. — Jodie Foster

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