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Science Quotes by Henry Adams
- Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.
- Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
- All experience is an arch, to build upon.
- Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
- Laplace would have found it child's-play to fix a ratio of progression in mathematical science between Descartes, Leibnitz, Newton and himself
- I am not prepared to deny or assert any proposition which concerns myself; but certainly this solitary struggle with platitudinous atoms, called men and women…
- I firmly believe, that before many centuries more, science will be the master of man. The engines he will have invented will be beyond his…
- My belief is that science is to wreck us, and that we are like monkeys monkeying with a loaded shell; we don't in the least…
- There have been times when the church seemed afraid, but she is no longer. Analyze, dissect, use your microscope or your spectrum till the last…
- From cradle to grave this problem of running order through chaos, direction through space, discipline through freedom, unity through multiplicity, has always been, and must…
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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
- Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. — 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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