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[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth. The sober facts of geology shuffled, so as to play a rogue's… — Adam Sedgwick
A central lesson of science is that to understand complex issues (or even simple ones), we must try to free our minds of dogma and… — Carl Sagan
Anyone who thinks science is trying to make human life easier or more pleasant is utterly mistaken. — Albert Einstein
New, distant Scenes of endless Science rise: So pleas'd at first, the towring Alps we try,... — Alexander Pope
Business men are to be pitied who do not recognize the fact that the largest side of their secular business is benevolence. ... No man… — Henry Ward Beecher
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
If you have to prove a theorem, do not rush. First of all, understand fully what the theorem says, try to see clearly what it… — George Polya
We know the truth not only through our reason but also through our heart. It is through the latter that we know first principles, and… — Blaise Pascal
How insidious Nature is when one is trying to get at it experimentally. — Albert Einstein
I happen to be a kind of monkey. I have a monkeylike curiosity that makes me want to feel, smell, and taste things which arouse… — Willis R. Whitney
There is one experiment which I always like to try, because it proves something whichever way it goes. A solution of iodine in water is… — Wilder Dwight Bancroft
Just by studying mathematics we can hope to make a guess at the kind of mathematics that will come into the physics of the future… — Paul Dirac
I never could do anything with figures, never had any talent for mathematics, never accomplished anything in my efforts at that rugged study, and to-day… — Mark Twain
Some mathematics problems look simple, and you try them for a year or so, and then you try them for a hundred years, and it… — Andrew Wiles
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
[Locating, from scratch, the gene related to a disease is like] trying to find a burned-out light bulb in a house located somewhere between the… — Francis Collins
[My father] advised me to sit every few months in my reading chair for an entire evening, close my eyes and try to think of… — Luis Walter Alvarez
I do not over-intellectualize the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story. — Tom Clancy
When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers. — Walter Lippmann
We tried war, we tried aggression, we tried intervention. None of it works. Why don't we try peace, as a science of human relations, not… — Dennis Kucinich

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