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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
As the world of science has grown in size and in power, its deepest problems have changed from the epistemological to the social. — Jerome Ravetz
In short, the greatest contribution to real security that science can make is through the extension of the scientific method to the social sciences and… — Edward Condon
The present rate of progress [in X-ray crystallography] is determined, not so much by the lack of problems to investigate or the limited power of… — William Lawrence Bragg
The secret of science is to ask the right question, and it is the choice of problem more than anything else that marks the man… — Henry Tizard
This was what the universities were turning out nowadays. The science-is-a-sacred-cow boys. People who believe you could pour mankind into a test-tube and titrate it,… — Frank M. Robinson
From the point of view of the pure morphologist the recapitulation theory is an instrument of research enabling him to reconstruct probable lines of descent;… — E.S. Russell
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… — Joseph Lovering
The Unexpected stalks a farm in big boots like a vagrant bent on havoc. Not every farmer is an inventor, but the good ones have… — Verlyn Klinkenborg
The investigation of causal relations between economic phenomena presents many problems of peculiar difficulty, and offers many opportunities for fallacious conclusions. Since the statistician can… — Udny Yule
Typical of the fundamental scientific problems whose solution should lead to important industrial consequences are, for example, the release of atomic energy, which experiment has… — Arthur Compton
In my first publication I might have claimed that I had come to the conclusion, as a result of serious study of the literature and… — Alexander Fleming
Questions that pertain to the foundations of mathematics, although treated by many in recent times, still lack a satisfactory solution. Ambiguity of language is philosophy's… — Giuseppe Peano
The imaginary expression âˆš(-a) and the negative expression -b, have this resemblance, that either of them occurring as the solution of a problem indicates some… — Augustus De Morgan
When the difficulty of a problem lies only in finding out what follows from certain fixed premises, mathematical methods furnish invaluable wings for flying over… — Arthur M. Wellington
The flight of most members of a profession to the high empyrean, where they can work peacefully on purely scientific problems, isolated from the turmoil… — Gerald Holton
There are still many unsolved problems about bird life, among which are the age that birds attain, the exact time at which some birds acquire… — Paul Bartsch
Willis Rodney Whitney ... once compared scientific research to a bridge being constructed by a builder who was fascinated by the construction problems involved. Basic… — Chauncey Guy Suits
[The purpose of flight research] is to separate the real from the imagined problems and to make known the overlooked and the unexpected. — Hugh Latimer Dryden
The real problem of leisure time is how to keep others from using yours. — Arthur Lacey

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