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“Science asymptotically approaches reality.”

— Philip C. Plait

All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation.

— Bertrand Russell

Scientific innovations continually provide us with new means of analyzing the finds.

— Richard Leakey

“The deep study of nature is the most fruitful source of mathematical discoveries. By offering to research a definite end, this study has the…

— Anonymous

Scientists try to discover or unravel the mysteries of nature. Some of the problems we are trying to solve have been solved in nature.

— Philip Emeagwali

You kind of alluded to it in your introduction. I mean, for the last 300 or so years, the exact sciences have been dominated…

— Stephen Wolfram

The great scientific achievements are research programmes which can be evaluated in terms of progressive and degenerative problemshifts; and scientific revolutions consist of one…

— Imre Lakatos

People will often take an interesting experimental study which has been done in the world, perhaps at small scale, and then it's touted as…

— Sendhil Mullainathan

Although scientists can often be as resistant to new ideas as anyone, the process of science ensures that, over time, good ideas and theories…

— Dean Ornish

I picture the vast realm of the sciences as an immense landscape scattered with patches of dark and light. The goal towards which we…

— Denis Diderot

“The various approximations that constitute our current physics theories are successful because simple mathematical structures can provide good approximations of certain aspects of more-complex…

— Max Tegmark

Scientific research involves going beyond the well-trodden and well-tested ideas and theories that form the core of scientific knowledge. During the time scientists are…

— Lisa Randall