Science Quotes

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If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics. — Francis Bacon
Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished. — Francis Bacon
Science is but an image of the truth. — Francis Bacon
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. — Francis Bacon
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. — Francis Bacon
It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other. — Francis Bacon
All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious… — Roger Bacon
The strongest arguments prove nothing so long as the conclusions are not verified by experience. Experimental science is the queen of sciences and the goal… — Roger Bacon
The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of… — Lord Acton
I was born in 1950 and watched science fiction and horror movies on TV and was always really fascinated by them. — Rick Baker
Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost. — Russell Baker
True science is never speculative; it employs hypotheses as suggesting points for inquiry, but it never adopts the hypotheses as though they were demonstrated propositions. — Cleveland Abbe
The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side. — James A. Baldwin
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. — Edward Abbey
There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the… — Ansel Adams
Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century. — J. G. Ballard
Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages,… — J. G. Ballard
Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood! — Honore de Balzac
There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly… — Douglas Adams
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. — Douglas Adams

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