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If humankind would accept and acknowledge this responsibility and become creatively engaged in the process of evolution, consciously as well as unconsciously, a new reality… — Jonas Salk
If materialism is true, it seems to me that we cannot know that it is true. If my opinions are the result of the chemical… — John B. S. Haldane
But just as astronomy succeeded astrology, following Kepler's discovery of planetary regularities, the discoveries of these many principles in empirical explorations of intellectual processes in… — Marvin Minsky
Geology, perhaps more than any other department of natural philosophy, is a science of contemplation. It requires no experience or complicated apparatus, no minute processes… — Humphry Davy
A science is not mere knowledge, it is knowledge which has undergone a process of intellectual digestion. It is the grasp of many things brought… — John Henry Newman
Inductive inference is the only process known to us by which essentially new knowledge comes into the world. — Ronald Fisher
It is not enough to say that we cannot know or judge because all the information is not in. The process of gathering knowledge does… — John Steinbeck
The growth of our knowledge is the result of a process closely resembling what Darwin called 'natural selection'; that is, the natural selection of hypotheses:… — Karl Popper
The purpose of science is to develop, without prejudice or preconception of any kind, a knowledge of the facts, the laws, and the processes of… — Robert Andrews Millikan
As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying. — Arthur C. Clarke
Science, by itself, cannot supply us with an ethic. It can show us how to achieve a given end, and it may show us that… — Bertrand Russell
The fact that Science walks forward on two feet, namely theory and experiment, is nowhere better illustrated than in the two fields for slight contributions… — Robert Andrews Millikan
Without deductive logic science would be entirely useless. It is merely a barren game to ascend from the particular to the general, unless afterwards we… — Alfred North Whitehead
...the life of the planet began the long, slow process of modulating and regulating the physical conditions of the planet. The oxygen in today's atmosphere… — Lewis Thomas
Now I must take you to a very interesting part of our subject-to the relation between the combustion of a candle and that living kind… — Michael Faraday
The nucleic acids, as constituents of living organisms, are comparable In importance to proteins. There is evidence that they are Involved In the processes of… — Linus Pauling
We are machines built by DNA whose purpose is to make more copies of the same DNA. ... This is exactly what we are for.… — Richard Dawkins
We may say that life has borrowed from inanimate processes the same mechanism used in producing these striking structures that are crystals. — Linus Pauling
As is well known the principle of virtual velocities transforms all statics into a mathematical assignment, and by D'Alembert's principle for dynamics, the latter is… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
The philosopher of science is not much interested in the thought processes which lead to scientific discoveries; he looks for a logical analysis of the… — Hans Reichenbach

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