Science Quotes
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Our religion will not clash with nor contradict the facts of science in any particular.
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In science, address the few, in literature the many. In science, the few must dictate opinion to the many; in literature, the many, sooner or later, force their judgement on the few.
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I don't know the science behind climate change. I can't say one way or another what is the direct impact, whether it's man-made or not.
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Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.
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In summoning even the wisest of physicians to our aid, it is probably that he is relying upon a scientific "truth", the error of which will become obvious in just a few years' time.
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Science can make a heart beat. But it can’t make it race.
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The history of the development of mechanics is quite indispensable to a full comprehension of the science in its present condition. It also affords a simple and instructive example or the processes by which natural science generally is developed.
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Science deals exclusively with things as they are in themselves; and art exclusively with things as they affect the human sense and human soul.
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Understanding science and pushing the boundaries of science is what makes me immensely satisfied.
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We can understand the science of what makes a heart beat, but we can never stop it from breaking.
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Science, my lad, has been built upon many errors; but they are errors which it was good to fall into, for they led to the truth.
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Gentlemen, now you will see that now you see nothing. And why you see nothing you will see presently.
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How many discoveries are reserved for the ages to come when our memory shall be no more, for this world of ours contains matter for investigation for all generations.
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Comedy is my proper job. It's what I should be doing, and when I do other bits like my science series, I miss it.
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Where there is no knowledge ignorance calls itself science.
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I felt strongly that since the pursuit of good science was so difficult it was essential that the problem being studied was an important one to justify the effort expanded.
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Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.
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Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
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As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.
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We have no knowledge, that is, no general principles drawn from the contemplation of particular facts, but what has been built up by pleasure, and exists in us by pleasure alone. The Man of Science, the Chemist and Mathematician, whatever difficulties and disgusts they may have had to struggle with, know and feel this. However painful may be the objects with which the Anatomist's knowledge is connected, he feels that his knowledge is pleasure; and where he has no pleasure he has no knowledge.
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Later scientific theories are better than earlier ones for solving puzzles in the often quite different environments to which they are applied. That is not a relativist's position, and it displays the sense in which I am a convinced believer in scientific progress.
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As patience leads to peace, and study to science, so are humiliations the path that leads to humility.
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Science doesn’t have all the answers, you know. It’s got all the best questions, though.
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I have watched all the work going on there, and the more I see of it the more I am convinced that Mendelism has nothing to do with evolution.
