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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
Distinguisht Link in Being's endless Chain! Midway from Nothing to the Deity!
The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.
People who write obscurely are either unskilled in writing or up to mischief.
Hippocrates is an excellent geometer but a complete fool in everyday affairs.
Then assuredly the world was made, not in time, but simultaneously with time.
Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science - in all of biology.
Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.
Science already contained all that was necessary, if you just brought it out.
To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery.
I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.
Beware of finding what you're looking for. A favorite aphorism he often used.
Each time one of the medicine men dies, it's as if a library has burned down.
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
I've never owned a telescope, but it's something I'm thinking of looking into.
Ignorance is always ready to admire itself. Procure yourself critical friends.
If you look right, you can see the whole world from wherever you happen to be.
Nature, when left to universal laws, tends to produce regularity out of chaos.
Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.
Which is the best religion? [...] The religion that brings you closest to God.
If you aren't confused by quantum mechanics, you haven't really understood it.
No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.
In consequence, science is more important than ever for industrial technology.
The modern research laboratory can be a large and complicated social organism.
The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought.
Law is a Bottomless-Pit, it is a Cormorant, a Harpy, that devours every thing.
We should be increasing research and development into our fossil fuel program.
Mathematics is much less formally complete and precise than computer programs.
The world cries out for global rules that respect the achievements of science.
I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.
The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
If journalism were a religious order, George Orwell would be its patron saint.
Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything.
No one should approach the temple of science with the soul of a money changer.
The theory of our modern technic shows that nothing is as practical as theory.
A professor is one who can speak on any subject - for precisely fifty minutes.
The frontispiece of Mr. Lyell's book is enough to throw a Wernerian into fits.
Therefore, O students, study mathematics and do not build without foundations.
The science of fossil shells is the first step towards the study of the earth.
That knowledge which stops at what it does not know, is the highest knowledge.
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
All the conditions of happiness are realized in the life of the man of science.
Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
I don't recall any interest in science in particular. It came later in college.
I see a certain order in the universe and math is one way of making it visible.
Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.
Plus, I was a math and science whiz from my first introduction to the subjects.
It is not so difficult a task as to plant new truths, as to root out old errors
As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.