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By no amount of reasoning can we altogether eliminate all contingency from our world. Moreover, pure speculation alone will not enable us to get a… — Morris Raphael Cohen
In fact, we will have to give up taking things for granted, even the apparently simple things. We have to learn to understand nature and… — John Desmond Bernal
Man does not limit himself to seeing; he thinks and insists on learning the meaning of phenomena whose existence has been revealed to him by… — Claude Bernard
To consider the matter aright, reason is nothing but a wonderful and unintelligible instinct in our souls, which carries us along a certain train of… — David Hume
Whoever wishes to acquire a deep acquaintance with Nature must observe that there are analogies which connect whole branches of science in a parallel manner,… — William Stanley Jevons
All of my life, I have been fascinated by the big questions that face us, and have tried to find scientific answers to them. If,… — Stephen Hawking
Human behaviour reveals uniformities which constitute natural laws. If these uniformities did not exist, then there would be neither social science nor political economy, and… — Vilfredo Pareto
Know thyself! This is the source of all wisdom, said the great thinkers of the past, and the sentence was written in golden letters on… — Karl Ernst von Baer
Most educated people are aware that we're the outcome of nearly 4 billion years of Darwinian selection, but many tend to think that humans are… — Martin Rees
One should not understand this compulsion to construct concepts, species, forms, purposes, laws ('a world of identical cases') as if they enabled us to fix… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Science can tell us what exists; but to compare the worths, both of what exists and of what does not exist, we must consult not… — William James
Every movement in the skies or upon the earth proclaims to us that the universe is under government. — John William Draper
For myself, I like a universe that, includes much that is unknown and, at the same time, much that is knowable. A universe in which… — Carl Sagan
Let us not fear that the issues of natural science shall be scepticism or anarchy. Through all God's works there runs a beautiful harmony. The… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Somewhere in the arrangement of this world there seems to be a great concern about giving us delight, which shows that, in the universe, over… — Rabindranath Tagore
Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know-and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it… — Isaac Asimov
The astronomers said, 'Give us matter and a little motion and we will construct the universe. It is not enough that we should have matter,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The universe is an asymmetrical entity. I am inclined to believe that life as it is manifested to us must be a function of the… — Louis Pasteur
The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us, is a direct result of the asymmetry of the… — Louis Pasteur
We have simply arrived too late in the history of the universe to see this primordial simplicity easily ... But although the symmetries are hidden… — Steven Weinberg
Nothing in physics seems so hopeful to as the idea that it is possible for a theory to have a high degree of symmetry was… — Steven Weinberg
Since Pawlow [Pavlov] and his pupils have succeeded in causing the secretion of saliva in the dog by means of optic and acoustic signals, it… — Jacques Loeb
We must take the abiding spiritual values which inhere in the deep experiences of religion in all ages and give them new expression in terms… — Harry Emerson Fosdick
Without the slightest doubt there is something through which material and spiritual energy hold togehter and are complementary. In the last analysis, somehow or other,… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
If Christ did not want to dismiss the Jews without food in the desert for fear that they would collapse on the way, it was… — St. Jerome

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