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“It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate.”
Dave Barry Quotes |
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“Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery.”
Richard Powers Quotes |
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“There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That's perfectly all right; they're the aperture to finding out what's right. Science is a self-correcting process. To be accepted, new ideas must survive the most rigorous standards of evidence and scrutiny.”
Dr. Carl Sagan Quotes |
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“Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.”
Dr. Carl Sagan Quotes |
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“Philosophy is the science which considers truth”
Aristotle Quotes |
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“Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.”
Alan Turing Quotes |
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“Science is built up of facts, as a house is built of stones; but an accumulation of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house”
Henri Poincar Quotes |
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“I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale.”
Marie Curie Quotes |
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“True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time and society consider most important. Art transmits these truths from the region of perception.”
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Quotes |
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“Bad science and bad religion simply swap roles, the former proclaiming Truth, the latter worshiping Doubt”
Jeffrey Satinover Quotes |
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“Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.”
Immanuel Kant Quotes |
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“Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact.”
Henry Louis Mencken Quotes |
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“I like to browse in occult bookshops if for no other reason than to refresh my commitment to science.”
Heinz R. Pagels Quotes |
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“Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.”
Hippocrates Quotes |
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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.”
Paul Dirac Quotes |
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“'Twas thus by the glare of false science betray'd,
That leads to bewilder, and dazzles to blind.”
James Beattie Quotes 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.”
Bible Quotes Source: I Timothy (ch. VI, v. 20-21)
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“We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.”
Werner von Braun Quotes 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.”
Bertolt Brecht Quotes 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.”
Jacob Bronowski Quotes 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?”
Thomas Campbell Quotes Source: Pleasures of Hope (pt. II, l. 325)
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“What we might call, by way of Eminence, the Dismal Science.”
Thomas Campbell Quotes Source: Pleasures of Hope (pt. II, l. 325)
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“Respectable Professors of the Dismal Science.”
Thomas Carlyle Quotes 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.”
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov Quotes 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.]”
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) Quotes Source: Tusculanarum Disputationum (bk. I)
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