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To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery.

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Science ... has no consideration for ultimate purposes, any more than Nature has, but just as the latter occasionally achieves things of the greatest suitableness without intending to do so, so also true science, as the imitator of nature in ideas, will occasionally and in many ways further the usefulness and welfare of man,-but also without intending to do so.

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Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. ... [By seeking] logical beauty spiritual formulas are discovered necessary for the deeper penetration into the laws of nature.

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The science of mathematics presents the most brilliant example of how pure reason may successfully enlarge its domain without the aid of experience

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The physician heals, Nature makes well.

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To bother about the best method of accomplishing an accidental result.

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I find science so much more fascinating than science fiction. It also has the advantage of being true.

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ETHNOLOGY, n. The science that treats of the various tribes of Man, as robbers, thieves, swindlers, dunces, lunatics, idiots and ethnologists.

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We are consuming our forests three times faster than they are being reproduced. Some of the richest timber lands of this continent have already been destroyed, and not replaced, and other vast areas are on the verge of destruction. Yet forests, unlike mines, can be so handled as to yield the best results of use, without exhaustion, just like grain fields.

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In the Universe the difficult things are done as if they were easy.

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Such is professional jealousy; a scientist will never show any kindness for a theory which he did not start himself.

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Who then understands the reciprocal flux and reflux of the infinitely great and the infinitely small, the echoing of causes in the abysses of being, and the avalanches of creation?

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ADDER, n. A species of snake. So called from its habit of adding funeral outlays to the other expenses of living.

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Chlorine is a deadly poison gas employed on European battlefields in World War I. Sodium is a corrosive metal which burns upon contact with water. Together they make a placid and unpoisonous material, table salt. Why each of these substances has the properties it does is a subject called chemistry.

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It is certainly true that principles cannot be more securely founded than on experience and consciously clear thinking.

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The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants.

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The laws of light and of heat translate each other;-so do the laws of sound and colour; and so galvanism, electricity and magnetism are varied forms of this selfsame energy.

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If I would be a young man again and had to decide how to make my living, I would not try to become a scientist or scholar or teacher. I would rather choose to be a plumber or a peddler in hope to find that modest degree of independence still available under present circumstances.

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How insidious Nature is when one is trying to get at it experimentally.

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A central lesson of science is that to understand complex issues (or even simple ones), we must try to free our minds of dogma and to guarantee the freedom to publish, to contradict, and to experiment. Arguments from authority are unacceptable.

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