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 | "All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect.
Each scientific discovery increases man"s ability to predict the
consequences of his actions and thus his Ability to control future
events." | |
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Laurence J. Peter
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| "I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that
life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more
advanced than ours." | |
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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| "In all science error precedes the truth, and it is better it should
go first than last." | |
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Walpole
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| "In science as in love, too much concentration on technique can often
lead to impotence." | |
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Peter Ludwig Berger
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| "In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not
to the man to whom the idea first occurs." | |
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William Osler
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| "Mathematics is the only science where one never knows what one is
talking about nor whether what is said is true." | |
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Bertrand Russell
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| "Mathematics is the science which uses easy words for hard
ideas." | |
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Edward Kasner
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| "New discoveries in science ... will continue to create a thousand
new frontiers for those who would still adventure." | |
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Herbert Clark Hoover
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| "No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to
suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere." | |
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Sigmund Freud
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| "Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided
missiles and misguided men." | |
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
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| "Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and
inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith,
for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws?a thing which
can never be demonstrated." | |
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Tryon Edwards
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| "Science is a body of truths which offers clear and certain knowledge
about the real world and is therefore superior to tradition, philosophy,
religion, dogma, and superstition which offer shadowy knowledge about an
ideal world." | |
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Donald DeMarco
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| "Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself." | |
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Edwin Land
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| "Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself." | |
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Richard Phillips Feynman
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| "Science is always wrong. It never solves a problem without creating
ten more." | |
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George Bernard Shaw
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| "Science is nothing but perception." | |
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Plato
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| "Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life." | |
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Immanuel Kant
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| "Science is organized knowledge." | |
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Herbert Spencer
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| "Science is simply common sense at its best that is, rigidly accurate
in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic." | |
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Thomas Henry Huxley
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| "Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm And
superstition." | |
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Adam Smith
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| "Science is the knowledge of consequences, And dependence of one fact
upon another." | |
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Thomas Hobbes
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| "Science is the refusal to believe on the basis of hope." | |
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C. P. Snow
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| "Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is
the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say that there
is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of
the universe." | |
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Francis Vincent "Frank" Zappa, Jr.
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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." | |
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Albert Einstein
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| "The humanities and science are not in inherent conflict but have
become separated in the twentieth century. Now their essential unity must
be re-emphasized, so that twentieth-century multiplicity may become
twentieth-century unity." | |
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Lewis Mumford
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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." | |
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Sir William Bragg
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| "The physiological law of Transfer of Energy is the basis of human
success and happiness. There is no action without expenditure of energy,
and if energy be not expended the power to generate it is lost. This law
shows itself in a thousand ways in the life of man. The arm which is not
used becomes palsied. The wealth which comes by chance weakens and
destroys. The good which is unused turns to evil. The charity which asks
no effort cannot relieve the misery she creates." | |
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David Starr Jordan
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| "The progress of Science consists in observing interconnections and
in showing with a patient ingenuity that the events of this ever-shifting
world are but examples of a few general relations, called laws. To see
what is general in what is particular, and what is permanent in what is
transitory, is the aim of scientific thought." | |
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Alfred North Whitehead
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| "The real scientist ... is ready to bear privation and, if need be,
starvation rather than let anyone dictate to him which direction his work
must take." | |
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Albert Szent-Gyorgyi de Nagyraolt
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| "The science of today is the technology of tomorrow." | |
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Edward Teller
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| "There are in fact two things, science and opinion: the former begets
knowledge. the latter ignorance." | |
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Hippocrates
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| "True science teaches, above all, to doubt, and to be
ignorant." | |
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Miguel de Unamuno
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| "Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis Best
suited to open the way to the next better one." | |
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Konrad Lorenz
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| "Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real
science and propaganda cross-dressed as science." | |
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Linda Bowles
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| "We can"t all be Einstein (because we don"t all play the violin). At
the very least, we need a sort of street-smart science: the ability to
recognize evidence, gather it, assess it, and act on it." | |
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Judith Stone
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| "We"ve arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements
profoundly depend on science and technology." | |
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Carl Sagan
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| "When the war finally came to an end, I was at a loss as to what to
do... I took stock of my qualifications. A not-very-good degree, redeemed
somewhat by my achievements at the Admiralty. A knowledge of certain
restricted parts of magnetism and hydrodynamics, neither of them subjects
for which I felt the least bit of enthusiasm. No published papers at
all... Only gradually did I realize that this lack of qualification could
be an advantage. By the time most scientists have reached age thirty they
are trapped by their own expertise. They have invested so much effort in
one particular field that it is often extremely difficult, at that time in
their careers, to make a radical change. I, on the other hand, knew
nothing, except for a basic training in somewhat old-fashioned physics and
mathematics and an ability to turn my hand to new things... Since I
essentially knew nothing, I had an almost completely free choice." | |
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Francis Harry Compton Crick
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| "You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more
than about 1012 to 1." | |
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Ernest Rutherford
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| "[Asked whether he would like to see an experimental demonstration of
conical refraction] No. I have been teaching it all my life, and I do not
want to have my ideas upset." | |
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Isaac Todhunter
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