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- Astronomy is not the apex of science or of invention. But it is a test of the cast of temperament and mind that underlies a…
- By the worldly standards of public life, all scholars in their work are of course oddly virtuous. They do not make wild claims, they do…
- It doesn't matter whether you're talking about bombs or the intelligence quotients of one race as against another if a man is a scientist, like…
- The discoveries of science, the works of art are explorations-more, are explosions, of a hidden likeness. The discoverer or artist presents in them two aspects…
- When Da Vinci wanted an effect, he willed, he planned the means to make it happen: that was the purpose of his machines. But the…
- Da Vinci was as great a mechanic and inventor as were Newton and his friends. Yet a glance at his notebooks shows us that what…
- We re-make nature by the act of discovery, in the poem or in the theorem. And the great poem and the deep theorem are new…
- Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a re-creation of her.
- Ask an impertinent question and you are on the way to the pertinent answer.
- The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself.
- That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.
- The progress of science is the discovery at each step of a new order which gives unity to what had seemed unlike
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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
- When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society… — Isaac Asimov