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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All our science, measured against reality, is primitive and
childlike--and yet it is the most precious thing we have.
Sir Humphrey Davy
Quotes , Source: Consolations in Travel--Dialogue V--The Chemical Philosopher
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Science without religion is lame, religion without science is
blind.
Albert Einstein
Quotes , 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.
Albert Einstein
Quotes , 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.]
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Quotes , Source: In a conversation with a German historian
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While bright-eyed science watches round.
Thomas Gray
Quotes , Source: Ode for Music--Chorus (l. 11)
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For science is . . . like virtue, its own exceeding great reward.
Charles Kingsley
Quotes , 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?
Edward N. Lorenz
Quotes , 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.
Bernard Lovell
Quotes , 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.
Peter B. Medawar
Quotes , 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.
Peter B. Medawar
Quotes , Source: J.B.S.
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The science of fools with long memories.
James Robinson Planche
Quotes , 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.
Alexander Pope
Quotes , 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.
Alexander Pope
Quotes , 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.
Friedrich Karl Ludwig Schoedler
Quotes , Source: Treasury of Science--Astronomy
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