Science Quotes
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If a single cell, under appropriate conditions, becomes a man in the space of a few years, there can surely be no difficulty in understanding how, under appropriate conditions, a cell may, in the course of untold millions of years, give origin to the human race.
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The law of diminishing returns means that even the most beneficial prinicple will become harmful if carried far enough.
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Where there is no knowledge ignorance calls itself science.
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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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The Primal Plant is going be the strangest creature in the world, which Nature herself must envy me. With this model and the key to it, it will be possible to go on for ever inventing plants and know that their existence is logical; that is to say, if they do not actually exist, they could, for they are not the shadowy phantoms of a vain imagination, but possess an inner necessity and truth. The same law will be applicable to all other living organisms.
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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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I find the science behind major natural events almost more interesting than the way in which those same events wreak their effects on human society.
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The human race likes to give itself airs. One good volcano can produce more greenhouse gases in a year than the human race has in its entire history.
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The same set of statistics can produce opposite conclusions at different levels of aggregation.
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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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The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.
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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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Science lives only in quiet places, and with odd people, mostly poor.
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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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Not art and science only, but patience will be required for the work.
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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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Science is advanced by proposing and testing hypothesis, not by declaring questions unsolvable.
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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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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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The historian of science may be tempted to claim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them. Led by a new paradigm, scientists adopt new instruments and look in new places. even more important, during revolutions, scientists see new and different things when looking with familiar instruments in places they have looked before. It is rather as if the professional community had been suddenly transported to another planet where familiar objects are seen in a different light and are joined by unfamiliar ones as well.
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Everybody thinks some times that science is done as a master plan and that somebody like me came from Mars and figured out everything and so on, but that's really not the way it worked.
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Science is supposedly the method by which we stand on the shoulders of those who came before us. In computer science, we all are standing on each others' feet.
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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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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.
