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  • My parents were not scientists. They knew almost nothing about science. But in introducing me simultaneously to skepticism and to wonder, they taught me the two uneasily cohabiting modes of thought that are central to the scientific method.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Science Quotes , Two Quotes
  • What a deep faith in the rationality of the structure of the world and what a longing to understand even a small glimpse of the reason revealed in the world there must have been in Kepler and Newton to enable them to unravel the mechanism of the heavens in long years of lonely work!
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Lonely Quotes , Science Quotes
  • What terrible questions we are learning to ask! The former men believed in magic, by which temples, cities, and men were swallowed up, and all trace of them gone. We are coming on the secret of a magic which sweeps out of men's minds all vestige of theism and beliefs which they and their fathers held and were framed upon.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Father Quotes , Science Quotes
  • Ere long intelligence-transmitted without wires-will throb through the earth like a pulse through a living organism. The wonder is that, with the present state of knowledge and the experiences gained, no attempt is being made to disturb the electrostatic or magnetic condition of the earth, and transmit, if nothing else, intelligence.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Nikola Tesla Quotes , Knowledge Quotes , Science Quotes
  • If any human being earnestly desire to push on to new discoveries instead of just retaining and using the old; to win victories over Nature as a worker rather than over hostile critics as a disputant; to attain, in fact, clear and demonstrative knowlegde instead of attractive and probable theory; we invite him as a true son of Science to join our ranks.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Science Quotes , Son Quotes
  • The aim of science is, on the one hand, as complete a comprehension as possible of the connection between perceptible experiences in their totality, and, on the other hand, the achievement of this aim by employing a minimum of primary concepts and relations.
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    Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Science Quotes , Hands Quotes
  • We could use up two Eternities in learning all that is to be learned about our own world and the thousands of nations that have arisen and flourished and vanished from it. Mathematics alone would occupy me eight million years.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Math Quotes , Science Quotes