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In the old days, they killed the messenger who brought the bad news... a Cassandra is never popular in her time.
To deride the hope of progress is the ultimate fatuity, the last word in poverty of spirit and meanness of mind.
Science is but a mere heap of facts, not a golden chain of truths, if we refuse to link it to the throne of God.
Nature gropes and blunders and performs the crudest acts. There is no steady advance upward. There is no design.
EAT, v.i. To perform successively (and successfully) the functions of mastication, humectation, and deglutition.
Unfortunately, only a small number of patients with peptic ulcer are financially able to make a pet of an ulcer.
Each metal has a certain power, which is different from metal to metal, of setting the electric fluid in motion.
An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature and a measurement is the recording of Nature's answer.
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
There were two kinds of physicists in Berlin: on the one hand there was Einstein, and on the other all the rest.
The most dangerous tendency of the modern world is the way in which bogus theories are given the force of dogma.
If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a nonworking cat.
In order to more fully understand this reality, we must take into account other dimensions of a broader reality.
What we have to discover for ourselves leaves behind in our mind a pathway that can be used on another occasion.
For quite a while I have set for myself the rule if a theoretician says 'universal' it just means pure nonsense.
When we try to imagine a chaos we fail. ... In its very fiber the mind is an order and refuses to build a chaos.
Without consciousness the mind-body problem would be much less interesting. With consciousness it seems hopeless.
At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a noble profession.
I enjoy science, and I'm a very curious person. I always want to know the reason behind everything, big or small.
All the truths of mathematics are linked to each other, and all means of discovering them are equally admissible.
Published papers may omit important steps and the memory of men of science, even the greatest, is sadly fallible.
There is only one ultimate and effectual preventative for the maladies to which flesh is heir, and that is death.
The Doctrine of Evolution states the fact that the present is the child of the past and the parent of the future.
Science is perhaps the only human activity in which errors are systematically criticized and, in time, corrected.
Australia, Australia, we love you from the heart. The kidneys, the liver & the giblets too. And every other part.
People don't die from the old diseases any more. They die from new ones, but that's Progress, isn't it? Isn't it?
Science is the search for truth - it is not a game in which one tries to beat his opponent, to do harm to others.
Like all science, psychology is knowledge; and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind.
Anthropology was the science that gave her the platform from which she surveyed, scolded and beamed at the world.
Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
Life is not found in atoms or molecules or genes as such, but in organization; not in symbiosis but in synthesis.
Knowledge is not happiness, and science But an exchange of ignorance for that Which is another kind of ignorance.
Will our Philosophy to later Life Seem but a crudeness of the planet's youth, Our Wisdom but a parasite of Truth?
The doubter is a true man of science: he doubts only himself and his interpretations, but he believes in science.
Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.
Men are not created to know, men are not created to understand ... and our illusions increase with our knowledge.
I hold that popularization of science is successful if, at first, it does no more than spark the sense of wonder.
The Geometer has the special privilege to carry out, by abstraction, all constructions by means of the intellect.
ADDER, n. A species of snake. So called from its habit of adding funeral outlays to the other expenses of living.
Nurse, it was I who discovered that leeches have red blood.[]On his deathbed when the nurse came to apply leeches
It was like a new world opened to me, the world of science, which I was at last permitted to know in all liberty.
The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.
'There's no need for fiction in medicine,' remarks Foster... 'for the facts will always beat anything you fancy.'
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
Man knows at last that he is alone in the universe's unfeeling immensity, out of which he emerged only by chance.
In reality, as any physicist will tell you, the physical world is made up of moving energy. All matter is energy.
It may be conceit, but I believe the subject will interest the public, and I am sure that the views are original.
The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
There is no belief, however foolish, that will not gather its faithful adherents who will defend it to the death.