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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
When one studies strongly radioactive substances special precautions must be taken if one wishes to be able to take delicate measurements. The various objects used… — Marie Curie
You have heard of the new chemical nomenclature endeavored to be introduced by Lavoisier, Fourcroy, &c. Other chemists of this country, of equal note, reject… — Thomas Jefferson
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 my studies of astronomy and philosophy I hold this opinion about the universe, that the Sun remains fixed in the centre of the circle… — Galileo Galilei
[A living organism] ... feeds upon negative entropy ... Thus the device by which an organism maintains itself stationary at a fairly high level of… — Erwin Schrodinger
In these strenuous times, we are likely to become morbid and look constantly on the dark side of life, and spend entirely too much time… — George Washington Carver
The ideal of the supreme being is nothing but a regulative principle of reason which directs us to look upon all connection in the world… — Immanuel Kant
I called it ignose, not knowing which carbohydrate it was. This name was turned down by my editor. 'God-nose' was not more successful, so in… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
All of our humanity is dependent upon recognizing the humanity in others — Desmond Tutu
Considered as a mere question of physics, (and keeping all moral considerations entirely out of sight,) the appearance of man is a geological phenomenon of… — Adam Sedgwick
Geology, perhaps more than any other department of natural philosophy, is a science of contemplation. It requires no experience or complicated apparatus, no minute processes… — Humphry Davy
It is to them [fossils] alone that we owe the commencement of even a Theory of the Earth ... By them we are enabled to… — Georges Cuvier
The course of the line we indicated as forming our grandest terrestrial fold [along the shores of Japan] returns upon itself. It is an endless… — Charles Lapworth
We cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time. — Adam Sedgwick
Where faith commences, science ends. Both these arts of the human mind must be strictly kept apart from each other. Faith has its origin in… — Ernst Haeckel
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than the animals that know nothing. A day will come when science will… — Maurice Maeterlinck
All things are made of atoms-little particles that move around in perpetual motion, attracting each other when they are a little distance apart, but repelling… — Richard P. Feynman
But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge: for men have entered… — Francis Bacon
Every student who enters upon a scientific pursuit, especially if at a somewhat advanced period of life, will find not only that he has much… — John Herschel
I am convinced that it is impossible to expound the methods of induction in a sound manner, without resting them upon the theory of probability.… — William Stanley Jevons
Research is industrial prospecting. The oil prospectors use every scientific means to find new paying wells. Oil is found by each one of a number… — Charles Kettering
That hemisphere of the moon which faces us is better known than the earth itself; its vast desert plains have been surveyed to within a… — Camille Flammarion
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
The whole value of science consists in the power which it confers upon us of applying to one object the knowledge acquired from like objects;… — William Stanley Jevons

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