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In all our academies we attempt far too much. ... In earlier times lectures were delivered upon chemistry and botany as branches of medicine, and… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Your remarks upon chemical notation with the variety of systems which have arisen, &c., &c., had almost stirred me up to regret publicly that such… — Michael Faraday
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
Quantum mechanics is certainly imposing. But an inner voice tells me that this is not yet the real thing. The theory says a lot, but… — Albert Einstein
We must have the real thing before we can have a science of a thing. — James Anthony Froude
It is not so bad being ignorant if you are totally ignorant; the hard thing is knowing in some detail the reality of ignorance... — Lewis Thomas
Only to often on meeting scientific men, even those of genuine distiction, one finds that they are dull fellows and very stupid. They know one… — H. L. Mencken
The end of knowledge is power ... the scope of all speculation is the performing of some action or thing to be done. — Thomas Hobbes
The Reader may here observe the Force of Numbers, which can be successfully applied, even to those things, which one would imagine are subject to… — John Arbuthnot
The saying that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing is, to my mind, a very dangerous adage. If knowledge is real and genuine, I… — Thomas Huxley
Their vain presumption of knowing all can take beginning solely from their never having known anything; for if one has but once experienced the perfect… — Galileo Galilei
In every thing that relates to science, I am a whole Encyclopaedia behind the rest of the world. — Charles Lamb
Modern science is necessarily a double-edged tool, a tool that cuts both ways. ... There is no doubt that a Zeppelin is a wonderful thing;… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it. One should earn one's living by work of which… — Albert Einstein
Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers. If you… — Arthur Eddington
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
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
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
[There is] one distinctly human thing - the story. There can be as good science about a turnip as about a man. ... [Or philosophy,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
A lodestone is a wonderful thing in very many experiments, and like living things. And one of its remarkable virtues in that which the ancients… — William Gilbert

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