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Pure logical thinking cannot yield us any knowledge of the empirical world. All knowledge of reality starts from experience and ends in it.
The heavens are now seen to resemble a luxuriant garden, which contains the greatest variety of productions, in different flourishing beds.
Whenever truth stands in the mind unaccompanied by the evidence upon which it depends, it cannot properly be said to be apprehended at all.
The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease.
The physicist's problem is the problem of ultimate origins and ultimate natural laws. The biologist's problem is the problem of complexity.
We know enough at this moment to say that the God of Abraham is not only unworthy of the immensity of creation; he is unworthy even of man.
Civilization depends on our expanding ability to produce food efficiently, which has markedly accelerated thanks to science and technology.
A marveilous newtrality have these things mathematicall, and also a strange participation between things supernaturall and things naturall.
If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.
Science is not a thing. It's a verb. It's a way of thinking about things. It's a way of looking for natural explanations for all phenomena.
I am aware that those hateful persons called Original Researchers now maintain that Raleigh was not the man; but to them I turn a deaf ear.
In the natural sciences, and particularly in chemistry, generalities must come after the detailed knowledge of each fact and not before it.
Science has succeeded to poetry, no less in the little walks of children than with men. Is there no possibility of averting this sore evil?
Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently. It is that which penetrates into the unseen worlds around us, the worlds of Science.
Science is built up with facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.
Art and religion first; then philosophy; lastly science. That is the order of the great subjects of life, that's their order of importance.
Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.
Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.
The first steps in the path of discovery, and the first approximate measures, are those which add most to the existing knowledge of mankind.
All knowledge has an ultimate goal. Knowledge for the sake of knowledge is, say what you will, nothing but a dismal begging of the question.
Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly. He is like a watch of which the most that can be said is that its cosmetic effect is good.
If we watch ourselves honestly we shall often find that we have begun to argue against a new idea even before it has been completely stated.
There has been no discovery like it in the history of man. It puts into man's hands the key to using the fundamental energy of the universe.
If popular medicine gave the people wisdom as well as knowledge, it would be the best protection for scientific and well-trained physicians.
It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.
My reflection, when I first made myself master of the central idea of the 'Origin', was, 'How extremely stupid not to have thought of that!'
A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent.
A very small cause, which escapes us, determines a considerable effect which we cannot ignore, and we say that this effect is due to chance.
To quit religion is to start walking in the space! Don't be afraid, you don't fall into the void, because you can hold onto God and science!
It is madness and a contradiction to expect that things which were never yet performed should be effected, except by means hitherto untried.
The testament of science is so continually in a flux that the heresy of yesterday is the gospel of today and the fundamentalism of tomorrow.
This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.
Life is not a chain of events but an area-something spreading out from a hidden centre and welling at once toward all points of the compass.
Metaphysics may be, after all, only the art of being sure of something that is not so and logic only the art of going wrong with confidence.
I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging of the future but by the past.
If a man's wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores, splitters of hairs.
For five hundred dollars, I'll name a subatomic particle after you. Some of my satisfied customers include Arthur C. Quark and George Meson.
Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology.
The only difference between elements and compounds consists in the supposed impossibility of proving the so-called elements to be compounds.
I happen to hold a bachelor of science degree in geology... And my greatest contribution to the field of science is that I never entered it.
Geometry is one and eternal shining in the mind of God. That share in it accorded to men is one of the reasons that Man is the image of God.
The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.
What we need is a strong education system that allows creativity to grow and encourages students to be interested in science and technology.
There is a conservation of matter and of energy, there may be a conservation of life; or if not of life, of something which transcends life.
In right-angled triangles the square on the side subtending the right angle is equal to the squares on the sides containing the right angle.
My passion for innovation and my interest in the 'business of science' has seen Biocon commercialize many innovative platforms and products.
Disease may be defined as "A change produced in living things in consequence of which they are no longer in harmony with their environment."
Scientists who think science consists of unprejudiced data-gathering without speculation are merely cows grazing on the pasture of knowledge.
Anyone informed that the universe is expanding and contracting in pulsations of eighty billion years has a right to ask. What's in it for me?
Speculations apparently the most unprofitable have almost invariably been those from which the greatest practical applications have emanated.