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Science Quotes by John Dewey
- Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. What are now working conceptions, employed as a matter of course because…
- Communication of science as subject-matter has so far outrun in education the construction of a scientific habit of mind that to some extent the natural…
- It science involves an intelligent and persistent endeavor to revise current beliefs so as to weed out what is erroneous, to add to their accuracy,…
- Man is merely a frequent effect, a monstrosity is a rare one, but both are equally natural, equally inevitable, equally part of the universal and…
- Since in reality there is nothing to which growth is relative save more growth, there is nothing to which education is subordinate save more education.‎
- The very problem of mind and body suggests division; I do not know of anything so disastrously affected by the habit of division as this…
- The routine of custom tends to deaden even scientific inquiry; it stands in the way of discovery and of the active scientific worker. For discovery…
- Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
- Scientific principles and laws do not lie on the surface of nature. They are hidden, and must be wrested from nature by an active and…
- The notion that "applied" knowledge is somehow less worthy than "pure" knowledge, was natural to a society in which all useful work was performed by…
- The intellectual content of religions has always finally adapted itself to scientific and social conditions after they have become clear.... For this reason I do…
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- Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of… — Ansel Adams
- Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on different areas… — Margaret Atwood
- When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation… — Marcus Aurelius
- Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't. — Richard Bach
- A citizen at his home in Rockford, Illinois, or Boulder, Colorado, could read a newspaper, listen to a radio, or watch the… — Jeff Greenfield