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To most people, I fancy, the stars are beautiful; but if you asked why, they would be at a loss to reply, until they remembered… — George Santayana
I think it would be just to say the most essential characteristic of mind is memory, using this word in its broadest sense to include… — Bertrand Russell
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
It is better to have a few forms well known than to teach a little about many hundred species. Better a dozen specimens thoroughly studied… — Louis Agassiz
Nobody knows how the stand of our knowledge about the atom would be without him. Personally, [Niels] Bohr is one of the amiable colleagues I… — Albert Einstein
The real value of science is in the getting, and those who have tasted the pleasure of discovery alone know what science is. A problem… — Frederick Soddy
Theory is the essence of facts. Without theory scientific knowledge would be only worthy of the madhouse. — Oliver Heaviside
No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere. — Sigmund Freud
Science is not a sacred cow-but there are a large number of would-be sacred cowherds busily devoting quantities of time, energy and effort to the… — John W. Campbell
Science would be ruined if (like sports) it were to put competition above everything else, and if it were to clarify the rules of competition… — Benoit Mandelbrot
Science, by itself, cannot supply us with an ethic. It can show us how to achieve a given end, and it may show us that… — Bertrand Russell
The acquirements of science may be termed the armour of the mind; but that armour would be worse than useless, that cost us all we… — Charles Caleb Colton
Without deductive logic science would be entirely useless. It is merely a barren game to ascend from the particular to the general, unless afterwards we… — Alfred North Whitehead
If patterns of ones and zeros were 'like' patterns of human lives and death, if everything about an individual could be represented in a computer… — Thomas Pynchon
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
How strange it would be if the final theory were to be discovered in our lifetimes! The discovery of the final laws of nature will… — Steven Weinberg
To us ... the only acceptable point of view appears to be the one that recognizes both sides of reality-the quantitative and the qualitative, the… — Wolfgang Pauli
Lastly, we must be holy, because without holiness on earth - we will never be prepared to enjoy Heaven. ...I do not know what others… — J C Ryle
He would be guilty of mortal sin, because he exposes himself to the danger of grievously offending God. Hence, before he acts he must lay… — Alphonsus Liguori
I would proclaim that the vast majority of what [say, Scientific American] is true-yet my ability to defend such a claim is weaker than I… — Douglas Hofstadter
There are moments when very little truth would be enough to shape opinion. One might be hated at extremely low cost. — Jean Rostand
I wish that one would be persuaded that psychological experiments, especially those on the complex functions, are not improved [by large studies]; the statistical method… — Alfred Binet
It is very different to make a practical system and to introduce it. A few experiments in the laboratory would prove the practicability of system… — Thomas A. Edison
But it is just this characteristic of simplicity in the laws of nature hitherto discovered which it would be fallacious to generalize, for it is… — Bertrand Russell
Many of the things that have happened in the laboratory have happened in ways it would have been impossible to foresee, but not impossible to… — Irving Langmuir

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