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Dr. Spaceman1 quote
Science is whatever we want it to be. — Dr. Spaceman · 2007Ernest Rutherford1 quote
All science is either physics or stamp collecting. — Ernest Rutherford · 1962Karl Popper1 quote
In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable: and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not speak about reality. — Karl Popper · 1959Stephen Jay Gould1 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 · 1990Werner Heisenberg1 quote
Since the measuring device has been constructed by the observer... We have to remember that what we observe is not nature in itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. — Werner Heisenberg · 1956