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It cannot be denied that he has had many exceptional ideas, and that he is a highly intelligent man. For my part, however, I have always been taught to take a broad overview of things,...

—He

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Es gibt keinen Gott und Dirac ist sein Prophet. (There is no God and Dirac is his Prophet.){A remark made during the Fifth Solvay International Conference (October 1927), after a discussion of the religious views...

—Dirac

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See now the power of truth; the same experiment which at first glance seemed to show one thing, when more carefully examined, assures us of the contrary.

—Galileo Galilei

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For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.

—Isaac Newton

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The predisposition to religious belief is an ineradicable part of human behavior. Mankind has produced 100,000 religions. It is an illusion to think that scientific humanism and learning will dispel religious belief. Men would rather...

—Edward O.

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Armed with all the powers, enjoying all the wealth they owe to science, our societies are still trying to practice and to teach systems of values already destroyed at the roots by that very science....

—Jacques Monod

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The researchers found that nearly every change they made was followed by a temporary uptick in performance, even when it involved simply undoing a previous change. They concluded that the increases in worker productivity were...

—Hal Herzog

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Cats catch mice, small birds and the like, very well. Teleology tells us that they do so because they were expressly constructed for so doing—that they are perfect mousing apparatuses, so perfect and so delicately...

—Darwinism

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Historically speaking, just about everything we know to be ‘absolute’ will eventually change due to ‘new findings’.

—Gary Hopkins

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Science does nothing for man spiritually, and organized religion demands blind faith in illogical liturgy that was never meant to be taken literally!

—Fred Van

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But we have reason to think that the annihilation of work is no less a physical impossibility than its creation, that is, than perpetual motion.

—George Gabriel

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Be a photocatalyst for change.

—Hemraj M.

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In the statistical gargon used in psychology, p refers to the probability that the difference you see between two groups (of introverts and extroverts, say, or males and females) could have occurred by chance. As...

—Cordelia Fine

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The ideas of Freud were popularized by people who only imperfectly understood them, who were incapable of the great effort required to grasp them in their relationship to larger truths, and who therefore assigned to...

—Freud

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One may characterize physics as the doctrine of the repeatable, be it a succession in time or the co-existence in space. The validity of physical theorems is founded on this repeatability.

—Friedrich Hund

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Seduced by the spectacular theoretical and practical successes of the objective sciences into thinking that the methods and criteria of those sciences were the only means to truth, philosophers sought to apply those same methods...

—D.R. Khashaba

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The field of scientific abstraction encompasses independent kingdoms of ideas and of experiments and within these, rulers whose fame outlasts the centuries. But they are not the only kings in science. He also is a...

—Fritz Haber

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I started studying law, but this I could stand just for one semester. I couldn’t stand more. Then I studied languages and literature for two years. After two years I passed an examination with the...

—George Pólya

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From the scientific view, the theory of karma may be a metaphysical assumption — but it is no more so than the assumption that all of life is material and originated out of pure chance

—Dalai Lama

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[T]he salient question is whether the increasing awareness of [heart] disease beginning in the 1920s coincided with the budding of an epidemic or simply better technology for diagnosis.

—Gary Taubes

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To her [Florence Nightingale] chiefly I owed the awakening to the fact that sanitation is the supreme goal of medicine its foundation and its crown.

—Elizabeth Blackwell

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Bu nasıl oldu? Nasıl oldu da, insanoğlu, doğaya karşı kazandığı utkunun doruğundayken, kendi yarattığı şeylerin tutsağı haline geldi, nasıl oldu da, ciddi olarak kendi kendini yok etme tehlikesiyle karşı karşıya kaldı?

—Erich Fromm

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If we want to set out on the aruous search for the truth, we must all summon up the courage to leave the lines along which we have thought until now and as the first...

—Erich von

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Wait until you see the science that is going to come back from this mission. It’s going to know your socks off.

—Howard Eisen

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The humble Cumulus humilis – never hurt a soul.

—Gavin Pretor-Pinney

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Should a priest reject relativity because it contains no authoritative exposition on the doctrine of the Trinity? Once you realize that the Bible does not purport to be a textbook of science, the old controversy...

—Georges Edouard

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Do Not Enter.” No great mysteries are hidden there—it’s just a supplies closet.

—Jarod Kintz

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Some recent work by E. Fermi and L. Szilárd, which has been communicated to me in manuscript, leads me to expect that the element uranium may be turned into a new and important source of...

—E. Fermi

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I can’t imagine the scientists wanting me to walk into the lab and start fiddling around with some big bowl of electrons they had out.

—Jim Benton

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Life is science.

—Lailah Gifty Akita

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To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter… to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be...

—John Burroughs

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Science is most significant as one of the greatest spiritual adventures that man has yet known.

—Karl Popper

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An irrefutable proof that such single-celled primaeval animals really existed as the direct ancestors of Man, is furnished according to the fundamental law of biogeny by the fact that the human egg is nothing more...

—Ernst Haeckel

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Přírodní vědy překvapivě nejsou úspěšné, když chtějí odpovídat na otázky, kterým říkám dětské a které začínají klasickým slůvkem “proč” (proč to tak je?). V tu chvíli přírodní vědy obvykle mlčí a nebo, pokud vůbec podávají...

—Jiří Grygar

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Mathematics began to seem too much like puzzle solving. Physics is puzzle solving, too, but of puzzles created by nature, not by the mind of man.

—Maria Goeppert

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Advocacy of leaf protein as a human food is based on the undisputed fact that forage crops (such as lucerne) give a greater yield of protein than other types of crops. Even with conventional food...

—Norman Pirie

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Now imagine that the human race had the means to put human settlers on all of these world using an affordable, sophisticated, safe drive that allows for speedy space travel across light-years of space. I’m...

—matthew s.

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The controversy between Darwinism and intelligent design has the characteristics of major scientific revolutions in the past. Darwinists are losing power because they treat with contempt the very people on whom they depend the most:...

—Jonathan Wells

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Now that science has helped us to overcome the awe of the unknown in nature, we are the slaves of social pressures of our own making. When called upon to act independently, we cry for...

—Max Horkheimer

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Science is much better at finding things that exist than at ruling out things that don’t.

—Marcelo Gleiser

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Life would again have to make superhuman efforts, “as in a battle,” to break open for himself a path through the truths created by the sciences which “dream of being but cannot see it in...

—Lev Shestov

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In my experience, the most staunchly held views are based on ignorance or accepted dogma, not carefully considered accumulations of facts. The more you expose the intricacies and realtities of the situation, the less clear-cut...

—Mary Roach

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The uniformity of the earth’s life, more astonishing than its diversity, is accountable by the high probability that we derived, originally, from some single cell, fertilized in a bolt of lightning as the earth cooled....

—Lewis Thomas

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The deepest of powers are often the most subtle. Something that most fail to realize… ☥

—Luis Marques

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Science literacy is an important part of what it is to be an informed citizen of society.

—Neil deGrasse

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[About the great synthesis of atomic physics in the 1920s]It was a heroic time. It was not the doing of any one man; it involved the collaboration of scores of scientists from many different lands....

—Niels Bohr

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{Recalling Professor ‘s remarks (1895) to a group of his graduate students about to go out with their degrees into the world beyond the university:}He talked to us for an hour on what was ahead...

—Lavoisier

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Be sceptical, ask questions, demand proof. Demand evidence. Don’t take anything for granted. But here’s the thing: When you get proof, you need to accept the proof. And we’re not that good at doing that.

—Michael Specter

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Imagination has brought mankind through the Dark Ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity. Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone,...

—L. Frank

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The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be called civilized.

—Rachel Carson

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