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It is a right, yes a duty, to search in cautious manner for the numbers, sizes, and weights, the norms for everything [God] has created.… — Johannes Kepler
Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. Nearly all men of science, all men of learning for that matter, and men of simple ways… — Vannevar Bush
Without the suitable conditions life could not exist. But both life and its conditions set forth the operations of inscrutable Power. We know not its… — Thomas Aquinas
Life, in a body whose order and state of affairs can make it manifest, is assuredly, as I have said, a real power that gives… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
The most convincing proof of the conversion of heat into living force [vis viva] has been derived from my experiments with the electro-magnetic engine, a… — James Prescott Joule
The more experiences and experiments accumulate in the exploration of nature, the more precarious the theories become. But it is not always good to discard… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
If one in twenty does not seem high enough odds, we may, if we prefer it, draw the line at one in fifty (the 2… — Ronald Fisher
Artificial intelligence is based on the assumption that the mind can be described as some kind of formal system manipulating symbols that stand for things… — George Johnson
The faults of which we ask you [God] the remittance, it is you who make us commit them; the traps of which we implore you… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
An Experiment, like every other event which takes place, is a natural phenomenon; but in a Scientific Experiment the circumstances are so arranged that the… — James Clerk Maxwell
The mathematics clearly called for a set of underlying elementary objects-at that time we needed three types of them-elementary objects that could be combined three… — Murray Gell-Mann
Historians desiring to write the actions of men, ought to set down the simple truth, and not say anything for love or hatred; also to… — Walter Raleigh
Not all of life's roads are set fast, for a man may do this or a man may do that and not even the gods… — Leo Tolstoy
Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself… — Ian Botham
Science is a set of methods designed to describe and interpret observed or inferred phenomenon, past or present, and aimed at building a testable body… — Michael Shermer
One does not have to appeal to God to set the initial conditions for the creation of the universe, but if one does He would… — Stephen Hawking
The resolution of revolutions is selection by conflict within the scientific community of the fittest way to practice future science. The net result of a… — Thomas Kuhn
When there are rational grounds for an opinion, people are content to set them forth and wait for them to operate. In such cases, people… — Bertrand Russell
It is your choice to be happy. Make up your mind to enjoy this day, to have a blessed, prosperous, victorious year. You may have… — Joel Osteen
I feel that, in a sense, the writer knows nothing any longer. He has no moral stance. He offers the reader the contents of his… — J. G. Ballard

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