Science Quotes
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It is still open to question whether psychology is a natural science, or whether it can be regarded as a science at all.
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There are or is indeed no contradiction between science and religion, the fields of which are different, and which, far from mutually fighting and persecute, must, on the contrary, complete each other.
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God may exist, but science can explain the universe without the need for a creator.
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Whether one show one's self a man of genius in science or compose a song, the only point is, whether the thought, the discovery, the deed, is living and can live on.
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During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art.
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Science always has its origin in the adaptation of thought to some definite field of experience.
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Race is an invention, not a noticeable genetic presence, and cultural traits are brute concoctions of the social sciences.
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It is clear that economics, if it is to be a science at all, must be a mathematical science.
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Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.
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Progress in science comes when experiments contradict theory.
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True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant.
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For it is necessary in every practical science to proceed in a composite (i.e. deductive) manner. On the contrary in speculative science, it is necessary to proceed in an analytical manner by breaking down the complex into elementary principles.
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It seems improbable to me that ... politics hasn't trumped science here, which is a tragedy.
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There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.
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In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side-by-side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand.
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My message is don't be discouraged by anything anybody tells you. In my case of the science thing, and I just ignored people who said, 'Oh, girls don't do that.'
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This is not very important what I'm doing. I'm just proving something.
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Every generation of humans believed it had all the answers it needed, except for a few mysteries they assumed would be solved at any moment. And they all believed their ancestors were simplistic and deluded. What are the odds that you are the first generation of humans who will understand reality ?
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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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Only when Genius is married to Science can the highest results be produced.
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There is nothing that living things do that cannot be understood from the point of view that they are made of atoms acting according to the laws of physics.
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If I go out into nature, into the unknown, to the fringes of knowledge, everything seems mixed up and contradictory, illogical, and incoherent. This is what research does; it smooths out contradictions and makes things simple, logical, and coherent.
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The Chinese are clearly inculcating the idea that science is exciting and important, and that's why they, as a whole-they're graduating four times as many engineers as we are, and that's just happened over the last 20 years.
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Just as you can't become a marathon runner by watching marathons on TV, likewise for science, you have to go through the thought processes of doing science and not just watch your instructor do it.
