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Albert Einstein5 quotes
The 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 · 1936Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. — Albert Einstein · 1940The pursuit of scientific truth, detached from the practical interests of everyday life, ought to be treated as sacred by every government. — Albert Einstein · 1934The grand aim of all science [is] to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest possible number of hypotheses or axioms. — Albert Einstein · 1948Stephen Jay Gould3 quotes
A man does not attain the status of Galileo merely because he is persecuted; he must also be right. — Stephen Jay Gould · 1975In science, "fact" can only mean "confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent." — Stephen Jay Gould · 1983Science 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 · 1990Charles Darwin2 quotes
Ignorance 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 · 1871To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing a new truth or fact. — Charles Darwin · 1879Isaac Newton2 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 · 1687Errors are not in the art, but in the artificers. — Isaac Newton · 1687T.H. Huxley2 quotes
The great tragedy of Science-the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. — T.H. Huxley · 1870Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense, differing from the latter only as a veteran may differ from a raw recruit: and its methods differ from those of common sense only as far as the guardsman's cut and thrust differ from the manner in which a savage wields his club. — T.H. Huxley · 1880Adam Smith1 quote
Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition. — Adam Smith · 1776Antoine Lavoisier1 quote
We must trust to nothing but facts: these are presented to us by nature and cannot deceive. — Antoine Lavoisier · 1789Benjamin Peirce1 quote
Mathematics is the science which draws necessary conclusions. — Benjamin Peirce · 1870David Hume1 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 · 1748Dr. Spaceman1 quote
Science is whatever we want it to be. — Dr. Spaceman · 2007Edwin Hubble1 quote
Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science. — Edwin Hubble · 1929Ernest Rutherford1 quote
All science is either physics or stamp collecting. — Ernest Rutherford · 1962Francis Darwin1 quote
In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs. — Francis Darwin · 1914Galileo Galilei1 quote
In disputes about natural phenomena one must begin not with the authority of Scriptural passage but with sensory experience and necessary demonstrations. For the Holy Scripture and nature derive equally from the Godhead, the former as the dictation of the Holy Spirit and the latter as the most obedient executrix of God's orders. — Galileo Galilei · 1615Georges Braque1 quote
Art is meant to disturb, science reassures. — Georges Braque · 1952Gita Patel1 quote
Science can teach us more about what is out there, but not what is in here. — Gita Patel · 2012Henri Poincare1 quote
Science is built up with facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house. — Henri Poincare · 1901Henry Drummond1 quote
There are reverent minds who ceaselessly scan the fields of Nature and the books of Science in search for gaps-gaps which they will fill up with God. As if God lived in gaps? — Henry Drummond · 1894Hippocrates1 quote
There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance. — Hippocrates · 370 BCJohn C. Polanyi1 quote
When…we fear science, we really fear ourselves. Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge. — John C. Polanyi · 1986Karl Popper1 quote
Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths. — Karl Popper · 1957Mark Twain1 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 · 1880Max Perutz1 quote
The priest persuades humble people to endure their hard lot; the politician urges them to rebel against it; and the scientist thinks of a method that does away with the hard lot altogether. — Max Perutz · 1989Miguel de Unamuno1 quote
Science is a cemetery of dead ideas. — Miguel de Unamuno · 1913Santosh Patel1 quote
In a few hundred years, science has taken us farther in understanding the universe, than religion has in 10,000. — Santosh Patel · 2012Stephen Hawking1 quote
In effect, we have redefined the task of science to be the discovery of laws that will enable us to predict events up to the limits set by the uncertainty principle. — Stephen Hawking · 1988Thomas Kuhn1 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 · 1962Thomas Love Peacock1 quote
I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race. — Thomas Love Peacock · 1860W.H. Auden1 quote
Without Art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without Science, we should always worship false gods. — W.H. Auden · 1962William Henry Bragg1 quote
From religion comes a man's purpose; from science his power to achieve it. — William Henry Bragg · 1920