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Intellect is void of affection and sees an object as it stands in the light of science, cool and disengaged. The intellect goes out of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is curious how often erroneous theories have had a beneficial effect for particular branches of science. — Ernst Mayr
It is in the name of Moses that Bellarmin thunderstrikes Galileo; and this great vulgarizer of the great seeker Copernicus, Galileo, the old man of… — Victor Hugo
It is not clear to anyone, least of all the practitioners, how science and technology in their headlong course do or should influence ethics and… — Jacques Barzun
It is of great advantage to the student of any subject to read the original memoirs on that subject, for science is always most completely… — James Clerk Maxwell
It is unreasonable to expect science to produce a system of ethics-ethics are a kind of highway code for traffic among mankind-and the fact that… — Sigmund Freud
It was like a new world opened to me, the world of science, which I was at last permitted to know in all liberty. — Marie Curie
Kepler's discovery would not have been possible without the doctrine of conics. Now contemporaries of Kepler-such penetrating minds as Descartes and Pascal-were abandoning the study… — Charles Sanders Peirce
Learning is the dictionary, but sense the grammar of science. — Laurence Sterne
Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history. — John Henry Newman
Mathematics is an obscure field, an abstruse science, complicated and exact; yet so many have attained perfection in it that we might conclude almost anyone… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences. — Galileo Galilei
Mathematics is the study of analogies between analogies. All science is. Scientists want to show that things that don't look alike are really the same.… — Gian-Carlo Rota
Modern science is necessarily a double-edged tool, a tool that cuts both ways. ... There is no doubt that a Zeppelin is a wonderful thing;… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Mr Edison gave America just what was needed at that moment in history. They say that when people think of me, they think of my… — Henry Ford
My young friend, I wish that science would intoxicate you as much as our good Göttingen beer! Upon seeing a student staggering down a street. — Carl Friedrich Gauss
Myths and science fulfill a similar function: they both provide human beings with a representation of the world and of the forces that are supposed… — Francois Jacob
New, distant Scenes of endless Science rise: So pleas'd at first, the towring Alps we try,... — Alexander Pope
No disorders have employed so many quacks, as those that have no cure; and no sciences have exercised so many quills, as those that have… — Charles Caleb Colton
No man can thoroughly master more than one art or science. — William Hazlitt
No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power. ... The time has come to consider how we might bring… — Jacob Bronowski
No science is speedily learned by the noblest genius without tuition. — Isaac Watts
No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere. — Sigmund Freud
Nominally a great age of scientific inquiry, ours has become an age of superstition about the infallibility of science; of almost mystical faith in its… — Louis Kronenberger
Nor must we forget that in science there are no final truths. — Claude Levi-Strauss

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