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Scientific literature17 quotes
Moreover, in a system of two bodies mutually acting upon each other, since the differences between their centres and the common centre of gravity of both are reciprocally as the bodies, the relative motions of those bodies, whether of approaching to or of receding from that centre, will be equal junong themselves. Therefore since the changes which happen to motions are equal and directed to contrary parts. — Isaac Newton · 1687The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility. — Albert Einstein · 1936The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of every day thinking. — Albert Einstein · 1936Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science. — Charles Darwin · 1871Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science. — Edwin Hubble · 1929A man does not attain the status of Galileo merely because he is persecuted; he must also be right. — Stephen Jay Gould · 1975All 17 quotes →Adventure2 quotes
In a few hundred years, science has taken us farther in understanding the universe, than religion has in 10,000. — Santosh Patel · 2012Science can teach us more about what is out there, but not what is in here. — Gita Patel · 2012Adventure (film)2 quotes
In a few hundred years, science has taken us farther in understanding the universe, than religion has in 10,000. — Santosh Patel · 2012Science can teach us more about what is out there, but not what is in here. — Gita Patel · 2012Drama2 quotes
In a few hundred years, science has taken us farther in understanding the universe, than religion has in 10,000. — Santosh Patel · 2012Science can teach us more about what is out there, but not what is in here. — Gita Patel · 2012Drama (film)2 quotes
In a few hundred years, science has taken us farther in understanding the universe, than religion has in 10,000. — Santosh Patel · 2012Science can teach us more about what is out there, but not what is in here. — Gita Patel · 2012Comedy1 quote
Science is whatever we want it to be. — Dr. Spaceman · 2007Comedy (TV)1 quote
Science is whatever we want it to be. — Dr. Spaceman · 2007Economic literature1 quote
Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition. — Adam Smith · 1776Historical literature1 quote
As in political revolutions, so in paradigm choice-there is no standard higher than the the assent of the relevant community. To discover how scientific revolutions are effected, we shall therefore have to examine not only the impact of nature and of logic, but also the techniques of persuasive argumentation effective within the quite special groups that constitute the community of scientists. — Thomas Kuhn · 1962Newspaper1 quote
Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition. — Stephen Jay Gould · 1990Philosophical literature1 quote
The great advantage of the mathematical sciences above the moral consists in this, that the ideas of the former, being sensible, are always clear and determinate. — David Hume · 1748Travel writing1 quote
We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter. — Mark Twain · 1880