Science Quotes
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Nature's economy shall be the base for our own, for it is immutable, but ours is secondary. An economist without knowledge of nature is therefore like a physicist without knowledge of mathematics.
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Science and psychology have isolated the one prime cause for success or failure in life. It is the hidden self-image you have of yourself.
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It was an effort to include intelligent design and treat it as science, disparaging evolution along the way. That will not stand.
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Mathematics as we know it and as it has come to shape modern science could never have come into being without some disregard for the dangers of the infinite.
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People seem to be afraid of science, and certainly, people seem to be afraid of mathematics. And I think that's such a shame, because I don't think it's as hard as people seem to think it is.
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Research under a paradigm must be a particularly effective way of inducing paradigm change.
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"Normal science" means research firmly based upon one or more past scientific achievements, achievements that some particular scientific community acknowledges for a time as supplying the foundation for its further practice.
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Science teaches us, in effect, to submit our reason to the truth and to know and judge of things as they are-that is to say, as they themselves choose to be and not as we would have them to be.
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To conquer by sheer force is becoming harder and harder every day. Defensive is getting continuously the advantage of offensive, as we progress in the satanic science of destruction.
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What chemists took from Dalton was not new experimental laws but a new way of practicing chemistry (he himself called it the 'new system of chemical philosophy'), and this proved so rapidly fruitful that only a few of the older chemists in France and Britain were able to resist it.
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Scientists often invent words to fill the holes in their understanding.These words are meant as conveniences until real understanding can be found. ... Words such as dimension and field and infinity ... are not descriptions of reality, yet we accept them as such because everyone is sure someone else knows what the words mean.
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There is no harm in doubt and skepticism, for it is through these that new discoveries are made.
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I am going to tell you what nature behaves like. If you will simply admit that maybe she does behave like this, you will find her a delightful, entrancing thing. Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possibly avoid it, 'But how can it be like that?' ...Nobody knows how it can be like that.
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The Lincoln Highway is to be something more than a road. It will be a road with a personality, a distinctive work of which the Americans of future generations can point with pride - an economic but also artistic triumph.
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Science always has its origin in the adaptation of thought to some definite field of experience.
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This is one of the great social functions of science - to free people from superstition.
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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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The supporters now, the bureaucrats of science, do not wish to take any risks. So in order to get it supported, they want to know from the start that it will work.
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Science is practical philosophy.
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The fact is that secularists are “for” reason and science only to the extent that they don’t lead to religious conclusions; they celebrate free choice only insofar as one chooses against traditional or religiously oriented morality; and they are for democracy and toleration only to the extent that these might lead to a less religiously oriented social and political order. Again, the animus against religion is not merely a feature of the secularist mindset; it is the only feature.
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The present situation in physics is as if we know chess, but we don't know one or two rules.
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Daoist thought is the root of science and technology in China.
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Somebody is always reflectively monkeying with some of the parts of an infinite universe - monkeying as distinct from aping.
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Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question. Science has no answer to it.
