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If I go out into nature, into the unknown, to the fringes of knowledge, everything seems mixed up and contradictory, illogical, and incoherent. This is… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
It seems to me, that the only Objects of the abstract Sciences or of Demonstration is Quantity and Number, and that all Attempts to extend… — David Hume
The regularity with which we conclude that further advances in a particular field are impossible seems equaled only by the regularity with which events prove… — Willis R. Whitney
Unless the structure of the nucleus has a surprise in store for us, the conclusion seems plain-there is nothing in the whole system if laws… — Arthur Eddington
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
Since Copernicus, man seems to have got himself on an inclined plane-now he is slipping faster and faster away from the center into-what? into nothingness?… — Friedrich Nietzsche
[For] men to whom nothing seems great but reason ... nature ... is a cosmos, so admirable, that to penetrate to its ways seems to… — Charles Sanders Peirce
I have been scientifically studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so-called,) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I… — Mark Twain
If history is any guide at all, it seems to me to suggest that there is a final theory. In this century we have seen… — Steven Weinberg
It is more important to have beauty in one's equations than to have them fit experiment... It seems that if one is working from the… — Paul Dirac
The experimental investigation by which Ampere established the law of the mechanical action between electric currents is one of the most brilliant achievements in science.… — James Clerk Maxwell
The initial stage, the act of conceiving or inventing a theory, seems to me neither to call for logical analysis nor to be susceptible of… — Karl Popper
It seems to me that every phenomenon, every fact, itself is the really interesting object. Whoever explains it, or connects it with other events, usually… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
When sin lets us alone we may let sin alone; but as sin is never less quiet than when it seems to be most quiet,… — John Owen
But to procrastinate and prevaricate simply because you're afraid of erring, when others - I mean our brethren in Germany - must make infinitely more… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Enormous numbers of people are taken in, or at least beguiled and fascinated, by what seems to me to be unbelievable hocum, and relatively few… — Douglas Hofstadter
I have tried to show why I believe that the biologist is the most romantic figure on earth at the present day. At first sight… — John B. S. Haldane
The best and safest way of philosophising seems to be, first to enquire diligently into the properties of things, and to establish those properties by… — Isaac Newton
The rigid electron is in my view a monster in relation to Maxwell's equations, whose innermost harmony is the principle of relativity... the rigid electron… — Hermann Minkowski
It is remarkable that when great discoveries are effected, their simplicity always seems to detract from their originality: on these occasions we are reminded of… — Benjamin Disraeli
Our present work sets forth mathematical principles of philosophy. For the basic problem of philosophy seems to be to discover the forces of nature from… — Isaac Newton
The footsteps of Nature are to be trac'd, not only in her ordinary course, but when she seems to be put to her shifts, to… — Robert Hooke
Among the older records, we find chapter after chapter of which we can read the characters, and make out their meaning: and as we approach… — Adam Sedgwick
While the nature of Texas fever is by no means made clear as yet, we are able to affirm that ticks can produce it. Whether… — Theobald Smith
It seems perfectly clear that Economy, if it is to be a science at all, must be a mathematical science. There exists much prejudice against… — William Stanley Jevons

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