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Even mistaken hypotheses and theories are of use in leading to discoveries. This remark is true in all the sciences. The alchemists founded chemistry by… — Claude Bernard
It has been recognized that hydrogen bonds restrain protein molecules to their native configurations, and I believe that as the methods of structural chemistry are… — Linus Pauling
... our "Physick" and "Anatomy" have embraced such infinite varieties of being, have laid open such new worlds in time and space, have grappled, not… — Thomas Huxley
It is now widely realized that nearly all the 'classical' problems of molecular biology have either been solved or will be solved in the next… — Sydney Brenner
The fundamental problem in the origin of species is not the origin of differences in appearance, since these arise at the level of the geographical… — David Lack
The problem [with genetic research] is, we're just starting down this path, feeling our way in the dark. We have a small lantern in the… — Francis Collins
The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself. — Andrew Wiles
How is it that there are so many minds that are incapable of understanding mathematics? ... the skeleton of our understanding, ... and actually they… — Henri Poincare
A chess problem is genuine mathematics, but it is in some way "trivial" mathematics. However, ingenious and intricate, however original and surprising the moves, there… — G. H. Hardy
After Gibbs, one the most distinguished [American scientists] was Langley, of the Smithsonian. ... He had the physicist's heinous fault of professing to know nothing… — Henry Adams
One of the great problems of philosophy, is the relationship between the realm of knowledge and the realm of values. Knowledge is what is; values… — Jacques Monod
Philosophy is that part of science which at present people chose to have opinions about, but which they have no knowledge about. Therefore every advance… — Bertrand Russell
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
The real value of science is in the getting, and those who have tasted the pleasure of discovery alone know what science is. A problem… — Frederick Soddy
Train yourselves. Don't wait to be fed knowledge out of a book. Get out and seek it. Make explorations. Do your own research work. Train… — Irving Langmuir
Science itself, therefore, may be regarded as a minimal problem, consisting of the completest possible presentment of facts with the least possible expenditure of thought. — Ernst Mach
The reproaches against science for not having yet solved the problems of the universe are exaggerated in an unjust and malicious manner; it has truly… — Sigmund Freud
The solutions put forth by imperialism are the quintessence of simplicity...When they speak of the problems of population and birth, they are in no way… — Fidel Castro
Whenever the essential nature of things is analysed by the intellect, it must seem absurd or paradoxical. This has always been recognized by the mystics,… — Fritjof Capra
Without a commitment to science and rationality in its proper domain, there can be no solution to the problems that engulf us. Still, the Yahoos… — Stephen Jay Gould

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