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Sciences usually advances by a succession of small steps, through a fog in which even the most keen-sighted explorer can seldom see more than a… — James Jeans
Stay in college, get the knowledge. And stay there until you're through. If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, they can sure make… — Muhammad Ali
The life and soul of science is its practical application, and just as the great advances in mathematics have been made through the desire of… — Lord Kelvin
The mere man of pleasure is miserable in old age, and the mere drudge in business is but little better, whereas, natural philosophy, mathematical and… — Thomas Paine
The purpose of science is to develop, without prejudice or preconception of any kind, a knowledge of the facts, the laws, and the processes of… — Robert Andrews Millikan
The real value of science is in the getting, and those who have tasted the pleasure of discovery alone know what science is. A problem… — Frederick Soddy
The whole question of imagination in science is often misunderstood by people in other disciplines. ... They overlook the fact that whatever we are allowed… — Richard P. Feynman
The whole value of science consists in the power which it confers upon us of applying to one object the knowledge acquired from like objects;… — William Stanley Jevons
To demonstrate experimentally that a microscopic organism actually is the cause of a disease and the agent of contagion, I know no other way, in… — Louis Pasteur
Unfortunately, in many cases, people who write science fiction violate the laws of nature, not because they want to make a point, but because they… — Isaac Asimov
Where there is no knowledge ignorance calls itself science. — George Bernard Shaw
[At the end of the story, its main character, Tom] is now a great man of science, and can plan railroads, and steam-engines, and electric… — Charles Kingsley
[Newton's calculations] entered the marrow of what we know without knowing how we know it. — Hermann Bondi
...comparing the capacity of computers to the capacity of the human brain, I've often wondered, where does our success come from? The answer is synthesis,… — Garry Kasparov
'It's this accursed Science,' I cried. 'It's the very Devil. The mediaeval priests and persecutors were right, and the Moderns are all wrong. You tamper… — George Herbert
'Normal science' means research firmly based upon one or more past scientific achievements, achievements that some particular scientific community acknowledges for a time as supplying… — Thomas Kuhn
... -ev'n with us the breath Of Science dims the mirror of our joy... — Edgar Allan Poe
...while science gives us implements to use, science alone does not determine for what ends they will be employed. Radio is an amazing invention. Yet… — Harry Emerson Fosdick
To one, science is an exalted goddess; to another it is a cow which provides him with butter. — Friedrich Schiller
Hoc age ['do this'] is the great rule, whether you are serious or merry; whether ... learning science or duty from a folio, or floating… — Samuel Johnson
The true science and study of mankind is man. — Pierre Charron
All sciences are connected; they lend each other material aid as parts of one great whole, each doing its own work, not for itself alone,… — Roger Bacon
Philosophy is true mother of the arts [of science]. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Half of science is putting forth the right questions. — Francis Bacon
The classification of facts, the recognition of their sequence and relative significance is the function of science, and the habit of forming a judgment upon… — Karl Pearson

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