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I definitely was attracted to similar things in punk and science. They both depend on a healthy dose of skepticism.
Science preceded the theory of science, and is independent of it. Science preceded naturalism, and will survive it.
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics.
The tide of evolution carries everything before it, thoughts no less than bodies, and persons no less than nations.
I conceive of nothing, in religion, science or philosophy, that is more than the proper thing to wear, for a while.
A neat and orderly laboratory is unlikely. It is, after all, so much a place of false starts and multiple attempts.
There is no debate in the scientific community...We need [Congress] to change things, not to deny what's happening.
A catalyst is a substance which alters the velocity of a chemical reaction without appearing in the final products.
Individual curiosity, often working without practical ends in mind, has always been a driving force for innovation.
I see they found out the universe is 80 million years older than we thought. It's also been lying about its weight.
The analysis of variance is not a mathematical theorem, but rather a convenient method of arranging the arithmetic.
That wee have of Geometry, which is the mother of all Naturall Science, wee are not indebted for it to the Schools.
First get a clear notion of what you desire to accomplish and then in all probability you will succeed in doing it.
I'm one of those people that think Thomas Edison and the light bulb changed the world more than Karl Marx ever did.
All different forms of human expression, art, science, are going to become expanded, by expanding our intelligence.
[Instead of collecting stamps, he collected dictionaries and encyclopaedias:] Because you can learn more from them.
Leonardo Da Vinci combined art and science and aesthetics and engineering, that kind of unity is needed once again.
The phrase ‘popular science’ has in itself a touch of absurdity. That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.
The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.
I think one of the great historical contributions of science is to weaken the hold of religion. That's a good thing.
The truth of a theory can never be proven, for one never knows if future experience will contradict its conclusions.
USA Today has come out with a new survey - apparently, three out of every four people make up 75% of the population.
Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10.
Aristoteles quidem ait: 'Omnes ingeniosos melancholicos esse.' Aristotle says that all men of genius are melancholy.
An approximate answer to the right problem is worth a good deal more than an exact answer to an approximate problem.
Nearly every understanding is gained by a painful struggle in which belief and unbelief are dramatically interwoven.
No parents will in that future time have the right to burden society with a malformed or mentally incompetent child.
One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it
If the greenhouse effect is a blanket in which we wrap ourselves to keep warm, nuclear winter kicks the blanket off.
It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the centre of gravity of the universe.
We live in a world with huge repositories of logic and even greater such of information-but, alas, so little wisdom.
Throughout his life Newton must have devoted at least as much attention to chemistry and theology as to mathematics.
There exist limitless opportunities in every industry. Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.
I had no specific bent toward science until my grandfather died of cancer. I decided nobody should suffer that much.
It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet.
Andrade [who was looking after wartime inventions] is like an inverted Micawber, waiting for something to turn down.
The end of knowledge is power ... the scope of all speculation is the performing of some action or thing to be done.
And, in fine, the ancient precept, "Know thyself," and the modern precept, "Study nature," become at last one maxim.
[It] is the little causes, long continued, which are considered as bringing about the greatest changes of the earth.
Such is professional jealousy; a scientist will never show any kindness for a theory which he did not start himself.
Your creatures can come into being only, like shoot from stem, as part of an endlessly renewed process of evolution.
The history of science is everywhere speculative. It is a marvelous hiatory. It makes you proud to be a human being.
It is because of his brain that he [modern man] has risen above the animals. Guess which animals he has risen above.
The scientific attitude of mind involves a sweeping away of all other desires in the interest of the desire to know.
The source from which existing things derive their existence is also that to which they return at their destruction.
Women are both talented and innovative thinkers and tend to use computer science as a tool to solve larger problems.
Facts mean nothing when they are preempted by appearance. Do not underestimate the power of impression over reality.
The biggest benefit of Apollo was the inspiration it gave to a growing generation to get into science and aerospace.