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| Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, Rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science | | Gary Zukav | |
| All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values. | | Friedrich Nietzsche | |
| But there is another reason for the high repute of mathematics: it is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of security which, without mathematics, they could not attain. | | Albert Einstein | |
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| Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art | | Will Durant | |
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| I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy. | | Richard Feynman | |
| I know nothing of the science of astrology and I consider it to be a science, if it is a science, of doubtful value, to be severely left alone by those who have any faith in Providence | | Mahatma Gandhi | |
| I think that a particle must have a separate reality independent of the measurements. That is an electron has spin, location and so forth even when it is not being measured. I like to think that the moon is there even if I am not looking at it. | | Albert Einstein | |
| If I found any new truths in the sciences, I can say that they follow from, or depend on, five or six principal problems which I succeeded in solving and which I regard as so many battles where the fortunes of war were on my side. | | Rene Descartes | |
| If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants. | | Isaac Newton | |
| If politics is to become scientific, and if the event is not to be constantly surprising, it is imperative that our political thinking should penetrate more deeply into the springs of human action | | Bertrand Russell | |
| If scientific discovery has not been an unalloyed blessing, if it has conferred on mankind the power not only to create but also to annihilate, it has at the same time provided humanity with a supreme challenge and a supreme testing | | John Fitzgerald Kennedy | |
| If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go. | | John Burroughs | |
| In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. | | Galileo Galilei | |
| It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure. | | Albert Einstein | |
| My feeling is religious insofar as I am imbued with the consciousness of the insufficiency of the human mind to understand more deeply the harmony of the Universe which we try to formulate as "laws of nature | | Albert Einstein | |
| My kingdom is as wide as the universe and my wants have no limits. I go forward always, freeing spirits and weighing worlds, without fear, without compassion, without love, without God. I am called Science. | | Gustave Flaubert | |
| Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not. | | Galileo Galilei | |
| One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike - and yet it is the most precious thing we have | | Albert Einstein | |
