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The study of Nature is intercourse with the highest mind. You should never trifle with Nature. At her lowest her works are…
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In 1847 I gave an address at Newton, Mass., before a Teachers' Institute conducted by Horace Mann. My subject was grasshoppers. I…
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I have devoted my whole life to the study of Nature, and yet a single sentence may express all that I have…
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The resources of the Deity cannot be so meagre, that, in order to create a human being endowed with reason, he must…
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A man cannot be professor of zoölogy on one day and of chemistry on the next, and do good work in both.…
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You cannot do without one specialty. You must have some base-line to measure the work and attainments of others. For a general…
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I cannot afford to waste my time making money
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In Europe I have been accused of taking my scientific ideas from the Church. In America I have been called a heretic,…
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When chemists have brought their knowledge out of their special laboratories into the laboratory of the world, where chemical combinations are and…
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I sometimes hear preachers speak of the sad condition of men who live without God in the world, but a scientist who…
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I will frankly tell you that my experience in prolonged scientific investigations convinces me that a belief in God-a God who is…
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One naturally asks, what was the use of this great engine set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over,…
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The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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We profess to teach the principles and practice of medicine, or, in other words, the science and art of medicine. Science is…
— Unknown Author
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It is not knowing, but the love of learning, that characterizes the scientific man.
— Charles Sanders Peirce
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The classification of facts and the formation of absolute judgments upon the basis of this classification-judgments independent of the idiosyncrasies of the…
— Karl Pearson
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It must be for truth's sake, and not for the sake of its usefulness to humanity, that the scientific man studies Nature.…
— Louis Agassiz
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But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance.
— Frederick Soddy
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It must be stressed that there is nothing insulting about looking at people as animals. We are animals, after all. Homo sapiens…
— Desmond Morris
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Scientific man is already on the moon, and yet we are still living with the moral concepts of Homer.
— Michelangelo Antonioni
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I was a reasonably good student in college ... My chief interests were scientific. When I entered college, I was devoted to…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.
— Charles Darwin
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But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
— Henrik Ibsen
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The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken…
— Nikola Tesla
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