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In science we have to consider two things: power and circumstance. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
In science we must be interested in things, not in persons. — Marie Curie
Mathematics is the study of analogies between analogies. All science is. Scientists want to show that things that don't look alike are really the same.… — Gian-Carlo Rota
Science deals exclusively with things as they are in themselves. — John Ruskin
Science is busy with the hither-end of things, not the thither-end. — Charles Henry Parkhurst
Science makes people reach selflessly for truth and objectivity; it teaches people to accept reality, with wonder and admiration, not to mention the deep awe… — Lise Meitner
Science teaches us, in effect, to submit our reason to the truth and to know and judge of things as they are-that is to say,… — Miguel de Unamuno
The aim of science is not things themselves, as the dogmatists in their simplicity imagine, but the relation between things. — Henri Poincare
The classification of facts and the formation of absolute judgments upon the basis of this classification-judgments independent of the idiosyncrasies of the individual mind-essentially sum… — Karl Pearson
To be worthy of the name, an experimenter must be at once theorist and practitioner. While he must completely master the art of establishing experimental… — Claude Bernard
When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality, they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which… — Simone Weil
Whenever the essential nature of things is analysed by the intellect, it must seem absurd or paradoxical. This has always been recognized by the mystics,… — Fritjof Capra
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
About two million years ago, man appeared. He has become the dominant species on the earth. All other living things, animal and plant, live by… — George Wald
Living things have no inertia, and tend to no equilibrium. — Thomas Huxley
The generation of seeds ... is therefore marvelous and analogous to the other productions of living things. For first of all an umbilicus appears. ...… — Marcello Malpighi
The Greeks are wrong to recognize coming into being and perishing; for nothing comes into being nor perishes, but is rather compounded or dissolved from… — Anaxagoras
Truth and falsity, indeed understanding, is not necessarily something purely intellectual, remote from feelings and attitudes. ... It is in the total conduct of men… — Max Wertheimer
A theory is the more impressive the greater the simplicity of its premises is, the more different kinds of things it relates, and the more… — Albert Einstein
I will simply express my strong belief, that that point of self-education which consists in teaching the mind to resist its desires and inclinations, until… — Michael Faraday

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