Quotes In Science
Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise.
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Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science.
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In the begining there was nothing, and it exploded.
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Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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All science is either physics or stamp collecting.
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I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true.
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Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
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The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct which, with the addition of certain verbal interpretations, describes observed phenomena. The justification of such a mathematical construct is solely and precisely that it is expected to work.
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Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.
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Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles.
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The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.
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Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.
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Each generation of scientists stands upon the shoulders of those who have gone before.
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The whole structure of science gradually grows, but only as it is built upon a firm foundation of past research.
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God does not play dice with the Universe.
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Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.
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No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.
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Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
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In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
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Science, which cuts its way through the muddy pond of daily life without mingling with it, casts its wealth to right and left, but the puny boatmen do not know how to fish for it.
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Science is bound, by the everlasting vow of honour, to face fearlessly every problem which can be fairly presented to it.
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Science is all metaphor.
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Evolution, of course, is not something that simply applies to life here on earth; it applies to the whole universe.
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If the experience of science teaches anything, it's that the world is very strange and surprising. The many revolutions in science have certainly shown that.
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Anecdotal thinking comes naturally; science requires training.
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All Models Are Wrong But Some Are Useful
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