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We know only a single science, the science of history. History can be contemplated from two sides, it can be divided into the history of… — Karl Marx
We live an age of science and of abounding accumulation of material things. These did not create the Declaration. Our Declaration created them. ... If… — Calvin Coolidge
We must also teach science not as the bare body of fact, but more as human endeavor in its historic context-in the context of the… — Isidor Isaac Rabi
We must have the real thing before we can have a science of a thing. — James Anthony Froude
We, the people, still believe that our obligations as Americans are not just to ourselves, but to all posterity. We will respond to the threat… — Barack Obama
Western science is a product of the Apollonian mind: its hope is that by naming and classification, by the cold light of intellect, archaic night… — Camille Paglia
What are the libraries of science but files of newspapers? — Henry David Thoreau
What distinguishes the language of science from language as we ordinarily understand the word? ... What science strives for is an utmost acuteness and clarity… — Albert Einstein
I used to measure the Heavens, now I measure the shadows of Earth. The mind belonged to Heaven, the body's shadow lies here. — Johannes Kepler
Geology is the science which investigates the successive changes that have taken place in the organic and inorganic kingdoms of nature; it enquires into the… — Charles Lyell
Geology, perhaps more than any other department of natural philosophy, is a science of contemplation. It requires no experience or complicated apparatus, no minute processes… — Humphry Davy
Mr. Lyell's system of geology is just half the truth, and no more. He affirms a great deal that is true, and he denies a… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The existing premises, wholly altered by geologic science, are no longer those of Hume. The foot-print in the sand-to refer to his happy illustration-does now… — Hugh Miller
The noble science of Geology loses glory from the extreme imperfection of the record. The crust of the earth with its embedded remains must not… — Charles Darwin
Science sans conscience n' est que le ruine de l'âme. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruine of the soule. — Francois Rabelais
Where faith commences, science ends. Both these arts of the human mind must be strictly kept apart from each other. Faith has its origin in… — Ernst Haeckel
A science is not mere knowledge, it is knowledge which has undergone a process of intellectual digestion. It is the grasp of many things brought… — John Henry Newman
A scientist should be the happiest of men. Not that science isn't serious; but as everyone knows, being serious is one way of being happy,… — George Wald
All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting. — Salvador Dali
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than the animals that know nothing. A day will come when science will… — Maurice Maeterlinck
All science is full of statements where you put your best face on your ignorance, where you say: ... we know awfully little about this,… — Hermann Bondi
Any one who has studied the history of science knows that almost every great step therein has been made by the "anticipation of Nature," that… — Thomas Huxley
Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live; science, everything that sharpens the desire to know. Art, even the most disinterested, the most disembodied,… — Remy de Gourmont
Books have always a secret influence on the understanding; we cannot at pleasure obliterate ideas; he that reads books of science, thogh without any fixed… — Samuel Johnson
But science is the great instrument of social change, all the greater because its object is not change but knowledge, and its silent appropriation of… — Arthur Balfour

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