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Notwithstanding all that has been discovered since Newton's time, his saying that we are little children picking up pretty pebbles on the…
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It is a common observation that a science first begins to be exact when it is quantitatively treated. What are called the…
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For example, there are numbers of chemists who occupy themselves exclusively with the study of dyestuffs. They discover facts that are useful…
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The woof and warp of all thought and all research is symbols, and the life of thought and science is the life…
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True science is distinctively the study of useless things. For the useful things will get studied without the aid of scientific men.…
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If we are to define science, ... it does not consist so much in knowing, nor even in "organized knowledge," as it…
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It is not knowing, but the love of learning, that characterizes the scientific man.
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Kepler's discovery would not have been possible without the doctrine of conics. Now contemporaries of Kepler-such penetrating minds as Descartes and Pascal-were…
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[For] men to whom nothing seems great but reason ... nature ... is a cosmos, so admirable, that to penetrate to its…
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Another characteristic of mathematical thought is that it can have no success where it cannot generalize.
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It is... easy to be certain. One has only to be sufficiently vague.
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It is impossible not to envy the man who can dismiss reason, although we know how it must turn out at last.
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The peculiar fascination of the brain lies in the fact that there is probably no other object of scientific enquiry about which…
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Adversity challenges the masks we hide behind, revealing sides of ourselves we have not yet comfortably with the world outside. It is…
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In this world of plenty, a tiny baby, who does not yet understand the mystery of the world, is allowed to cry…
— Muhammad Yunus
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I believe in something that I do not yet understand.
— Sharman Apt Russell
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Not to leave planet Earth would be like castaways on a desert island not trying to escape...Sending humans to other planets ...…
— Stephen Hawking
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We do not discard something we know to be true because of something we do not yet understand.
— Neil L. Andersen
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All important pictures embody something that we do not yet understand.
— Emmet Gowin
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Do you not yet understand what has made woman what she is? Then see what the sickly taste and perverted judgment of…
— Ernestine Rose
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However, the Medicare prescription drug benefit has changed, and if the nearly 3,000 seniors I have met through 12 town halls can…
— Mike Fitzpatrick
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Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to…
— Ernest Hemingway
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I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God -…
— Walt Whitman
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I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.
— Walt Whitman
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