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Do not great Bodies conserve their heat the longest, their parts heating one another, and may not great dense and fix'd Bodies, when heated beyond…
— Isaac Newton
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Twenty centuries of 'progress' have brought the average citizen a vote, a national anthem, a Ford, a bank account, and a high opinion of himself,…
— Aldo Leopold
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Molecular genetics, our latest wonder, has taught us to spell out the connectivity of the tree of life in such palpable detail that we may…
— Max Delbruck
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In the beginning (if there was such a thing), God created Newton's laws of motion together with the necessary masses and forces. This is all;…
— Albert Einstein
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It seems probable to me that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of such sizes and figures, and…
— Isaac Newton
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True science is distinctively the study of useless things. For the useful things will get studied without the aid of scientific men. To employ these…
— Charles Sanders Peirce
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The dignity of the human person is a transcendent value, always recognized as such by those who sincerely search for the truth. Indeed, the whole…
— Pope John Paul II
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Notwithstanding, therefore, that we have not witnessed of a large continent, yet, as we may predict the future occurrence of such catastrophes, we are authorized…
— Charles Lyell
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[My Book] will endeavour to establish the principle[s] of reasoning in ... [geology]; and all my geology will come in as illustration of my views…
— Charles Lyell
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...I believe there exists, & I feel within me, an instinct for the truth, or knowledge or discovery, of something of the same nature as…
— Charles Darwin
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Error has made man so deep, sensitive, and inventive that he has put forth such blossoms as religions and arts. Pure knowledge could not have…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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It must be conceded that a theory has an important advantage if its basic concepts and fundamental hypotheses are 'close to experience,' and greater confidence…
— Albert Einstein
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Science itself is badly in need of integration and unification. The tendency is more and more the other way ... Only the graduate student, poor…
— Isidor Isaac Rabi
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The mind can proceed only so far upon what it knows and can prove. There comes a point where the mind takes a higher plane…
— Albert Einstein
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We do not ask what hope of gain makes a little bird warble, since we know that it takes delight in singing because it is…
— Johannes Kepler
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Although a science fair can seem like a big "pain" it can help you understand important scientific principles, such as Newton's First Law of Inertia,…
— Dave Barry
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But the real glory of science is that we can find a way of thinking such that the law is evident.
— Richard P. Feynman
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If it is a terrifying thought that life is at the mercy of the multiplication of these minute bodies [microbes], it is a consoling hope…
— Louis Pasteur
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In honoring the Wright Brothers, it is customary and proper to recognize their contribution to scientific progress. But I believe it is equally important to…
— Charles Lindbergh
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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
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Science as such assuredly has no authority, for she can only say what is, not what is not.
— William James
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Science, by itself, cannot supply us with an ethic. It can show us how to achieve a given end, and it may show us that…
— Bertrand Russell
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There is no such thing as a special category of science called applied science; there is science and its applications, which are related to one…
— Louis Pasteur
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Through it [Science] we believe that man will be saved from misery and degradation, not merely acquiring new material powers, but learning to use and…
— Ray Lankester
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When we say 'science' we can either mean any manipulation of the inventive and organizing power of the human intellect: or we can mean such…
— Wyndham Lewis
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