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Science Quotes by George Santayana
- Proofs are the last thing looked for by a truly religious mind which feels the imaginary fitness of its faith.
- The scientific value of truth is not, however, ultimate or absolute. It rests partly on practical, partly on aesthetic interests. As our ideas are gradually…
- What is false in the science of facts may be true in the science of values.
- I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.
- Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.
- To feel beauty is a better thing than to understand how we come to feel it. To have imagination and taste, to love the best,…
- Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
More Science Quotes
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- The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. — Isaac Asimov
- The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...' — Isaac Asimov
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- To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
- If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. — Isaac Asimov
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