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'Tis a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity, of chemistry, of botany, and so forth. Those laws do not…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"The Universe repeats itself, with the possible exception of history." Of all earthly studies history is the only one that does not repeat itself. ...…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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'Conservation' (the conservation law) means this ... that there is a number, which you can calculate, at one moment-and as nature undergoes its multitude of…
— Richard P. Feynman
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I think she [Rosalind Franklin] was a good experimentalist but certainly not of the first rank. She was simply not in the same class as…
— Francis Crick
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The dignity of the human person is a transcendent value, always recognized as such by those who sincerely search for the truth. Indeed, the whole…
— Pope John Paul II
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It is to them [fossils] alone that we owe the commencement of even a Theory of the Earth ... By them we are enabled to…
— Georges Cuvier
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...I believe there exists, & I feel within me, an instinct for the truth, or knowledge or discovery, of something of the same nature as…
— Charles Darwin
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By this we may understand, there be two sorts of knowledge, whereof the one is nothing else but sense, or knowledge original (as I have…
— Thomas Hobbes
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If there be an order in which the human race has mastered its various kinds of knowledge, there will arise in every child an aptitude…
— Herbert Spencer
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Never any knowledge was delivered in the same order it was invented.
— Francis Bacon
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The scientist knows very well that he is approaching ultimate truth only in an asymptotic curve and is barred from ever reaching it; but at…
— Konrad Lorenz
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[The] erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken…
— H. L. Mencken
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For a long time it has been known that the first systems of representations with which men have pictured to themselves the world and themselves…
— Emile Durkheim
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Mathematics is the study of analogies between analogies. All science is. Scientists want to show that things that don't look alike are really the same.…
— Gian-Carlo Rota
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No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power. ... The time has come to consider how we might bring…
— Jacob Bronowski
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All living organisms are but leaves on the same tree of life. The various functions of plants and animals and their specialized organs are manifestations…
— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
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I am absolutely enraptured by the atmosphere of a wreck. A dead ship is the house of a tremendous amount of life-fish and plants. The…
— Jacques Yves Cousteau
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Mankind is drawn to the heavens for the same reason we were once drawn into unknown lands and across the open sea. We choose to…
— George W. Bush
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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
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We may say that life has borrowed from inanimate processes the same mechanism used in producing these striking structures that are crystals.
— Linus Pauling
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