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Science is uncertain. Theories are subject to revision; observations are open to a variety of interpretations, and scientists quarrel amongst themselves. This is disillusioning for… — Isaac Asimov
Now I must take you to a very interesting part of our subject-to the relation between the combustion of a candle and that living kind… — Michael Faraday
There is an attraction and a charm inherent in the colossal that is not subject to ordinary theories of art ... The tower will be… — Gustave Eiffel
It has sometimes been said that the success of the Origin proved "that the subject was in the air," or "that men's minds were prepared… — Charles Darwin
Mere numbers cannot bring out ... the intimate essence of the experiment. This conviction comes naturally when one watches a subject at work. ... What… — Alfred Binet
Nothing could have been worse for the development of my mind than Dr. Butler's school, as it was strictly classical, nothing else being taught, except… — Charles Darwin
St. Augustine and St. Thomas define mortal sin to be a turning away from God: that is, the turning of one's back upon God, leaving… — Alphonsus Liguori
Truths are known to us in two ways: some are known directly, and of themselves; some through the medium of other truths. The former are… — John Stuart Mill
Any chemist reading this book can see, in some detail, how I have spent most of my mature life. They can become familiar with the… — Donald Cram
While the vaccine discovery was progressive, the joy I felt at the prospect before me of being the instrument destined to take away from the… — Edward Jenner
Amid all the revolutions of the globe, the economy of Nature has been uniform, ... and her laws are the only things that have resisted… — John Playfair
On our planet, all objects are subject to continual and inevitable changes which arise from the essential order of things. These changes take place at… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
On all levels primary, and secondary and undergraduate - mathematics is taught as an isolated subject with few, if any, ties to the real world.… — Morris Kline
This splendid subject [mathematics], queen of all exact sciences, and the ideal and norm of all careful thinking... — G. Stanley Hall
We may as well cut out group theory. That is a subject that will never be of any use in physics. — James Jeans
If I want to stop a research program I can always do it by getting a few experts to sit in on the subject, because… — Charles Kettering
In the study of this membrane [the retina] I for the first time felt my faith in Darwinism (hypothesis of natural selection) weakened, being amazed… — Santiago Ramon y Cajal
You can choose, you can go one of two ways. You can be the person I probably admire more and say 'well I don't care… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work. — Lucian Freud
People can get obsessed with romance, they can get obsessed with political paranoia, they can get obsessed with horror. It's isn't the fault of the… — Adam Arkin
I do not wish to be misunderstood upon this subject of slavery in this country. I suppose it may long exist, and perhaps the best… — Abraham Lincoln
Upon this subject, the habits of our whole species fall into three great classes--useful labour, useless labour and idleness. Of these the first only is… — Abraham Lincoln
But whatever be their degree of talent it is no measure of their rights. Because Sir Isaac Newton was superior to others in understanding, he… — Thomas Jefferson
My conclusion is that there is no reason to believe any of the dogmas of traditional theology and, further, that there is no reason to… — Bertrand Russell
Communication of science as subject-matter has so far outrun in education the construction of a scientific habit of mind that to some extent the natural… — John Dewey

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