Science Quotes

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Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to [money… — William Cobbett
Because a fact seems strange to you, you conclude that it is not one. ... All science, however, commences by being strange. Science is successive.… — Victor Hugo
Because science flourishes, must poesy decline? The complaint serves but to betray the weakness of the class who urge it. True, in an age like… — Hugh Miller
But the real glory of science is that we can find a way of thinking such that the law is evident. — Richard P. Feynman
But, indeed, the science of logic and the whole framework of philosophical thought men have kept since the days of Plato and Aristotle, has no… — George Herbert
Can we ring the bells backward? Can we unlearn the arts that pretend to civilize, and then burn the world? There is a march of… — Charles Lamb
Chemical waste products are the droppings of science. — Lewis Thomas
Conscience is wiser than science. — Johann Kaspar Lavater
Criticism is as often a trade as a science, requiring, as it does, more health than wit, more labour than capacity, more practice than genius. — Jean de la Bruyere
During my span of life science has become a matter of public concern and the l'art pour l'art standpoint of my youth is now obsolete.… — Max Born
Empirical sciences prosecuted purely for their own sake, and without philosophic tendency are like a face without eyes. — Arthur Schopenhauer
Epistemology without contact with science becomes an empty scheme. Science without epistemology is-insofar as it is thinkable at all-primitive and muddled. — Albert Einstein
Every great scientist becomes a great scientist because of the inner self-abnegation with which he stands before truth, saying: "Not my will, but thine, be… — Harry Emerson Fosdick
Every year the inventions of science weave more inextricably the web that binds man to man, group to group, nation to nation. — Harry Emerson Fosdick
Examining this water...I found floating therein divers earthy particles, and some green streaks, spirally wound serpent-wise...and I judge that some of these little creatures were… — Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Fed on the dry husks of facts, the human heart has a hidden want which science cannot supply. — William Osler
First causes are outside the realm of science. — Claude Bernard
Fishing has been styled 'a contemplative man's recreation,' ... and science is only a more contemplative man's recreation. — Henry David Thoreau
For a long time it has been known that the first systems of representations with which men have pictured to themselves the world and themselves… — Emile Durkheim
For science is ... like virtue, its own exceeding great reward. — Charles Kingsley
For the sake of our children and our future, we must do more to combat climate change. Now, it's true that no single event makes… — Barack Obama
Freedom is the oxygen without which science cannot breathe. — David Sarnoff
Freedom, the first-born of science. — Thomas Jefferson
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. — Francis Bacon
History, as it lies at the root of all science, is also the first distinct product of man's spiritual nature, his earliest expression of what… — Thomas Carlyle

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