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New, distant Scenes of endless Science rise: So pleas'd at first, the towring Alps we try.

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I had ... come to an entirely erroneous conclusion, which shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from insufficient data.

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The most fundamental question we can ever ask ourselves is whether or not the universe we live in is friendly or hostile.

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There is not a soul on Earth who can read the deluge of physics publications in its entirety. As a result, it is sad but true that physics has irretrievably fallen apart from a cohesive to a fragmented discipline. ... It was not that long ago that people were complaining about two cultures. If we only had it that good. today.

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Tags : Abraham Pais Quotes , Science Quotes , Long Ago Quotes

Let us make education brave and preventive. Politics is an afterwork, a poor patching. We are always a little late... We shall one day learn to supercede politics by education... We must begin higher up, namely in Education.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Education Quotes , Science Quotes

This [discovery of a cell-free yeast extract] will make him famous, even though he has no talent for chemistry.

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Then assuredly the world was made, not in time, but simultaneously with time.

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Our intellect does not draw its laws from nature, but it imposes its laws upon nature.

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Anyone who believes that the laws of physics are mere social conventions is invited to try transgressing those conventions from the windows of my apartment. (I live on the twenty-first floor).

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Philosophy began when man ate the produce of the earth and suffered indigestion.

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Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends.

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Tags : A.C. Grayling Quotes , Science Quotes , Maturity Quotes

Evolution ever climbing after some ideal good, And Reversion ever dragging Evolution in the mud.

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Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Science Quotes , Climbing Quotes

The sciences, even the best,-mathematics and astronomy,-are like sportsmen, who seize whatever prey offers, even without being able to make any use of it.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Science Quotes , Use Quotes

[There is] one distinctly human thing - the story. There can be as good science about a turnip as about a man. ... [Or philosophy, or theology] ...There can be, without any question at all, as good higher mathematics about a turnip as about a man. But I do not think, though I speak in a manner somewhat tentative, that there could be as good a novel written about a turnip as a man.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Philosophy Quotes , Science Quotes

The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.

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...neither is it possible to discover the more remote and deeper parts of any science, if you stand but upon the level of the same science, and ascend not to a higher science.

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The educated man is a greater nuisance than the uneducated one.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Education Quotes , Science Quotes

Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Food Quotes , Science Quotes

Science finds it methods.

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Let every student of nature take this as his rule, that whatever the mind seizes upon with particular satisfaction is to be held in suspicion.

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