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'Twas thus by the glare of false science betray'd,
That leads to bewilder, and dazzles to blind.
Author: James Beattie
Source: The Hermit
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O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding
profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so
called;
Which some professing have erred concerning faith. Grace be with
thee. Amen.
Author: Bible
Source: I Timothy (ch. VI, v. 20-21)
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We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
Author: Werner von Braun
Source: in the Chicago "Sun Times", July 10, 1958
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The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom,
but to set a limit to infinite error.
Author: Bertolt Brecht
Source: The Life of Galileo (sc. 9)
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The essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are
on the way to a pertinent answer.
Author: Jacob Bronowski
Source: The Ascent of Man (ch. 4)
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O star-eyed Science, hast thou wander'd there,
To waft us home the message of despair?
Author: Thomas Campbell
Source: Pleasures of Hope (pt. II, l. 325)
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What we might call, by way of Eminence, the Dismal Science.
Author: Thomas Campbell
Source: Pleasures of Hope (pt. II, l. 325)
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Respectable Professors of the Dismal Science.
Author: Thomas Carlyle
Source: Latter Day Pamphlets (no. 1)
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There is no national science just as there is no national
multiplication table; what is national is no longer science.
Author: Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Source: "Mysli o Nauke Kishinev" by V.P. Ponomarev
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Philosophy is true mother of the arts. (Science)
[Lat., Philosophia vero omnium mater artium.]
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Source: Tusculanarum Disputationum (bk. I)
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There are very few persons who pursue science with true dignity.
- Sir Humphrey Davy,
Author: Sir Humphrey Davy
Source: Consolations in Travel--Dialogue V--The Chemical Philosopher
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In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be
understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before.
But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
Author: Sir Humphrey Davy
Source: Consolations in Travel--Dialogue V--The Chemical Philosopher
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All our science, measured against reality, is primitive and
childlike--and yet it is the most precious thing we have.
Author: Sir Humphrey Davy
Source: Consolations in Travel--Dialogue V--The Chemical Philosopher
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It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on
the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself
and before nature.
Author: Sir Humphrey Davy
Source: Consolations in Travel--Dialogue V--The Chemical Philosopher
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Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's
living at it.
Author: Sir Humphrey Davy
Source: Consolations in Travel--Dialogue V--The Chemical Philosopher
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Scientists were rated as great heretics by the church, but they
were truly religious men because of their faith in the
orderliness of the universe.
Author: Sir Humphrey Davy
Source: Consolations in Travel--Dialogue V--The Chemical Philosopher
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The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of
empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of
hypotheses or axioms.
Author: Sir Humphrey Davy
Source: Consolations in Travel--Dialogue V--The Chemical Philosopher
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Science without religion is lame, religion without science is
blind.
Author: Albert Einstein
Source: Sciencem Philosophy and Religion: a Symposium (ch. 13)
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If I could remember the names of all these particles I'd be a
botanist.
Author: Albert Einstein
Source: Sciencem Philosophy and Religion: a Symposium (ch. 13)
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Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish
the barriers of nationality.
[Ger., Wissenschaft und Kunst gehoren der Welt an, und vor ihhen
verschwinden die Schranken der Nationalitat.]
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Source: In a conversation with a German historian
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While bright-eyed science watches round.
Author: Thomas Gray
Source: Ode for Music--Chorus (l. 11)
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Science is the topography of ignorance.
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Source: Medical Essays (211)
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For science is . . . like virtue, its own exceeding great reward.
Author: Charles Kingsley
Source: Health and Education--Science
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Predictability: Does the flap of a butterfly's wings in Brazil
set off a tornado in Texas?
Author: Edward N. Lorenz
Source: title of paper given to the Am. Assn. for the Advancement of Science
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The pursuit of the good and evil are now linked in astronomy as
in almost all science. . . . The fate of human civilization will
depend on whether the rockets of the future carry the
astronomer's telescope or a hydrogen bomb.
Author: Bernard Lovell
Source: The Individual and the Universe
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If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the
art of the soluble. Both are immensely practical-minded affairs.
Author: Peter B. Medawar
Source: in the "New Statesman" magazine
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If a scientist were to cut his ear off, no one would take it as
evidence of a heightened sensibility.
Author: Peter B. Medawar
Source: J.B.S.
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The science of fools with long memories.
Author: James Robinson Planche
Source: Preliminary Observations--Pursuivant of Arms, speaking of heraldry
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How index-learning turns no student pale,
Yet holds the eel of science by the tale.
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: The Dunciad (bk. I, l. 279)
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One science only will one genius fit,
So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: Essay of Criticism (pt. I, l. 60)
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To the natural philosopher, to whom the whole extent of nature
belongs, all the individual branches of science constitute the
links of an endless chain, from which not one can be detached
without destroying the harmony of the whole.
Author: Friedrich Karl Ludwig Schoedler
Source: Treasury of Science--Astronomy
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A mere index hunter, who held the eel of science by the tail.
Author: Tobias George Smollett
Source: Peregrine Pickle (ch. XLIII)
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Science is organised knowledge.
Author: Herbert Spencer
Source: Education (ch. II)
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Science when well digested is nothing but good sense and reason.
Author: Leszczynski Stanislaus ("Stanislaus I")
Source: Maxims (no. 43)
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But beyond the bright searchlights of science,
Out of sight of the windows of sense,
Old riddles still bid us defiance,
Old questions of Why and of Whence.
Author: Sir William Cecil Dampier Whetham
Source: Recent Development of Physical Science (p. 10)
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There is only one nature--the division into science and
engineering is a human imposition, not a natural one. Indeed,
the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity
to comprehend the whole.
Author: Sir William Cecil Dampier Whetham
Source: Recent Development of Physical Science (p. 10)
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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology
Author: Carl Sagan
Source: None
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Art is I; Science is we.
Author: Claude Bernard
Source: None
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Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr
Source: None
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A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
Author: Albert Einstein
Source: None
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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Author: Arthur C. Clarke
Source: None
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Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Author: Albert Einstein
Source: None
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If it can't be expressed in figures, it is not science; it is opinion
Author: Lazarus Long
Source: None
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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
Author: Carl Sagan
Source: None
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The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
Author: Albert Einstein
Source: None
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We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.
Author: Charles Darwin
Source: None
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The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.
Author: Sir William Bragg
Source: None
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The scientific theory I like the best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline baggage.
Author: Max Born
Source: None
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A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
Author: Albert Einstein
Source: None
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There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.
Author: Isaac Asimov
Source: None
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