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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
The dimmed outlines of phenomenal things all merge into one another unless we put on the focusing-glass of theory, and screw it up sometimes to… — James Clerk Maxwell
To come very near to a true theory, and to grasp its precise application, are two different things, as the history of science teaches us.… — Alfred North Whitehead
Scientists have been struck by the fact that things that break down virtually never get lost, while things that get lost hardly ever break down. — Russell Baker
All other things have a portion of everything, but Mind is infinite and self-ruled, and is mixed with nothing but is all alone by itself. — Anaxagoras
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
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
The human understanding is moved by those things most which strike and enter the mind simultaneously and suddenly, and so fill the imagination; and then… — Francis Bacon
The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done-men… — Jean Piaget
In this would I live; in this would I die; upon this would I dwell in my thoughts and affections, to the withering and consumption… — John Owen
Though we are commanded to 'wash ourselves', to 'cleanse ourselves from sins', to 'purge ourselves from all our iniquities', yet to imagine that we can… — John Owen

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