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Twenty centuries of 'progress' have brought the average citizen a vote, a national anthem, a Ford, a bank account, and a high opinion of himself,… — Aldo Leopold
Faced with the widespread destruction of the environment, people everywhere are coming to understand that we cannot continue to use the goods of the earth… — Pope John Paul II
In these strenuous times, we are likely to become morbid and look constantly on the dark side of life, and spend entirely too much time… — George Washington Carver
The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself. — Andrew Wiles
We must also teach science not as the bare body of fact, but more as human endeavor in its historic context-in the context of the… — Isidor Isaac Rabi
It is a right, yes a duty, to search in cautious manner for the numbers, sizes, and weights, the norms for everything [God] has created.… — Johannes Kepler
The conception of objective reality ... has thus evaporated ... into the transparent clarity of mathematics that represents no longer the behavior of particles but… — Werner Heisenberg
To inquisitive minds like yours and mine the reflection that the quantity of human knowledge bears no proportion to the quantity of human ignorance must… — Benjamin Franklin
I have said that science is impossible without faith. ... Inductive logic, the logic of Bacon, is rather something on which we can act than… — Norbert Wiener
In England, more than in any other country, science is felt rather than thought. ... A defect of the English is their almost complete lack… — John Desmond Bernal
Science affects the average man and woman in two ways already. He or she benefits by its application driving a motor-car or omnibus instead of… — John B. S. Haldane
Science no longer is in the position of observer of nature, but rather recognizes itself as part of the interplay between man and nature. The… — Werner Heisenberg
The divisions of science are not like different lines that meet in one angle, but rather like the branches of trees that join in one… — Francis Bacon
But, however many ways there may be of being alive, it is certain that there are vastly more ways of being dead, or rather not… — Richard Dawkins
The Greeks are wrong to recognize coming into being and perishing; for nothing comes into being nor perishes, but is rather compounded or dissolved from… — Anaxagoras
Truth and falsity, indeed understanding, is not necessarily something purely intellectual, remote from feelings and attitudes. ... It is in the total conduct of men… — Max Wertheimer
It is not that we propose a theory and Nature may shout NO; rather, we propose a maze of theories, and Nature may shout INCONSISTENT. — Imre Lakatos
What I remember most clearly was that when I put down a suggestion that seemed to me cogent and reasonable, Einstein did not in the… — Hermann Bondi
Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities-that's training or instruction-but is rather making visible what is hidden as… — Thomas W. Moore
I approached the bulk of my schoolwork as a chore rather than an intellectual adventure. The tedium was relieved by a few courses that seem… — Steven Chu
In the following pages I offer nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments, and common sense; and have no other preliminaries to settle with the… — Thomas Paine
[I shall not] discuss scientific method, but rather the methods of scientists. We proceed by common sense and ingenuity. There are no rules, only the… — Joel Henry Hildebrand
All interpretations made by a scientist are hypotheses, and all hypotheses are tentative. They must forever be tested and they must be revised if found… — Ernst Mayr
The logic now in use serves rather to fix and give stability to the errors which have their foundation in commonly received notions than to… — Francis Bacon
The prediction of nuclear winter is drawn not, of course, from any direct experience with the consequences of global nuclear war, but rather from an… — Carl Sagan

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