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Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense-experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought.
Whether we like it or not, one day science will take God from us! This will be especially a great destruction for the weak minds!
People like it when they understand something that they previously thought they couldn't understand. It's a sense of empowerment.
Mathematics deals exclusively with the relations of concepts to each other without consideration of their relation to experience.
Science bestowed immense new powers on man, and at the same time, created conditions which were largely beyond his comprehension.
We work day after day, not to finish things; but to make the future better ... because we will spend the rest of our lives there.
I have failed in finding parasites in mosquitoes fed on malaria patients, but perhaps I am not using the proper kind of mosquito.
The seeds of great discoveries are constantly floating around us, but they only take root in minds well-prepared to receive them.
When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.
Nothing is more consonant with Nature than that she puts into operation in the smallest detail that which she intends as a whole.
I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.
Philosophy stands in need of a science which shall determine the possibility, principles, and extent of human knowledge à priori.
As the world of science has grown in size and in power, its deepest problems have changed from the epistemological to the social.
You know how to split atoms, how to send explorers to the moon, how to splice genes, but you don't know how people ought to live.
Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.
Jupiter was very large and bright. Apparently, there was a small reddish star appended to its side. This is called "an alliance."
The creative person pays close attention to what appears discordant and contradictory... and is challenged by such irregularities.
It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.
Those in science perform research, have it reviewed by their peers, publish the results, and believe the answer should be obvious.
There is a reference in Aristotle to a gnat produced by larvae engendered in the slime of vinegar. This must have been Drosophila.
Science provides an understanding of a universal experience, and arts provides a universal understanding of a personal experience.
For one person who is blessed with the power of invention, many will always be found who have the capacity of applying principles.
In the spirit of science, there really is no such thing as a 'failed experiment.' Any test that yields valid data is a valid test.
When Lord Kelvin was in this country [U.S.], he said that nothing interested him so much as Mr. Hewitt's work and his vacuum lamp.
The man of science appears to be the only man who has something to say just now, and the only man who does not know how to say it.
Nothing drives progress like the imagination. The idea precedes the deed. The only exceptions are accidents and natural selection.
Science, while it penetrates deeply the system of things about us, sees everywhere, in the dim limits of vision, the word mystery.
In science the new is an advance; but in morals, as contradicting our inner ideals and historic idols, it is ever a retrogression.
Religion and Science are two aspects of social life, of which the former has been important as far back as we know anything of man
Astronomers say the universe is finite, which is a comforting thought for those people who can't remember where they leave things.
Of course, if one ignores contradictory observations, one can claim to have an "elegant" or "robust" theory. But it isn't science.
A species is a reproductive community of populations reproductively isolated from others that occupies a specific niche in nature.
Great is the power of steady misrepresentation; but the history of science shows that fortunately this power does not long endure.
I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends, as I have moderate civil ends: for I have taken all knowledge to be my province.
In this apparatus is nothing new but its simplicity and thorough trustworthiness. On his revolutionary method of organic analysis.
The scientific discovery appears first as the hypothesis of an analogy; and science tends to become independent of the hypothesis.
When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.
It takes a trained and discerning researcher to keep the goal in sight, and to detect evidence of the creeping progress toward it.
It is true that many scientists are not philosophically minded and have hitherto shown much skill and ingenuity but little wisdom.
Whoever, in the pursuit of science, seeks after immediate practical utility, may generally rest assured that he will seek in vain.
[Chemistry] laboratory work was my first challenge. ... I still carry the scars of my first discovery-that test-tubes are fragile.
I have no trouble publishing in Soviet astrophysical journals, but my work is unacceptable to the American astrophysical journals.
Every time someone dies as a result of floods in Bangladesh, an airline executive should be dragged out of his office and drowned.
In science, the old men are usually wrong. But in politics, the old men are wise, counsel caution, and in the end are often right.
Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.
I feel that one should employ methods that reflect the physics of the problem at hand rather than the methods one happens to know.
Plutus himself, That knows the tinct and multiplying med'cine, Hath not in nature's mystery more science Than I have in this ring.
I felt that chess... is a science in the form of a game... I consider myself a scientist. I wanted to be treated like a scientist.
Protein synthesis is a central problem for the whole of biology, and that it is in all probability closely related to gene action.
Biophilia, if it exists, and I believe it exists, is the innately emotional affiliation of human beings to other living organisms.