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| Science may have found a cure for most evils, but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all--the apathy of human beings. | | Helen Keller | |
Science which has become a great power in the last
century, has analyzed everything divine handed down to
us in the holy books. After this cruel analysis the
learned of this world have nothing left of all that
was sacred. But they have only analyzed the parts and
overlooked the whole, and indeed their blindness is
marvelous. | | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact. | | Henry Louis Mencken | |
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| Scientific research is based on the idea that everything that takes place is determined by laws of nature, and therefore this holds for the action of people. For this reason, a research scientist will hardly be inclined to believe that events could b | | Albert Einstein | |
| Spots are on the surface of the solar body where they are produced and also dissolved, some in shorter and others in longer periods. They are carried around the Sun; an important occurrence in itself. | | Galileo Galilei | |
| The central difficulty lies in the fact that all of the sciences have made such great progress during the last century that they have got quite beyond the reach of man | | Henry Louis Mencken | |
| The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship. | | Robert A. Heinlein | |
| The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease | | William Osler | |
The middle ages showed us the results of thinking without experimentation, our present century
shows us what experimentation without thinking leads to. | | Arthur Schopenhauer | |
| The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I'm talking about an organic computer - about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor. | | Alvin Toffler | |
| The science which teacheth arts and handicrafts is merely science for the gaining of a living; but the science which teacheth deliverance from worldly existence, is not that the true science? | | Thomas Hobbes | |
| the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation. | | Peter Ustinov | |
| The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing? | | Stephen Hawking | |
| The vanity of the sciences. Physical science will not console me for the ignorance of morality in the time of affliction. But the science of ethics will always console me for the ignorance of the physical sciences. | | Blaise Pascal | |
| The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired. | | Stephen Hawking | |
| There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere. | | Isaac Asimov | |
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| There is scarcely any part of science or any thing in nature, which those impostors and blasphemers of science, called priests, as well as Christians and Jews, have not, at some time or other, perverted, or sought to pervert to the purpose of superst | | Thomas Paine | |
| To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science. | | Albert Einstein | |
