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Quotes

39

Scientific literature

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.

Principia · 1687

★ 7.3

Economic literature

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

The Wealth of Nations · 1776

★ 3.9

Scientific literature

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.

The Descent of Man · 1871

★ 3.8

Academic journal · Scientific literature

The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

Albert Einstein

1936

★ 3.8

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Books

10

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

1962★ 8.3

Frankenstein

1818★ 7.4

The Voyage of the Beagle

1839★ 6.9

QED

Richard Feynman

1985★ 6.7

The Vocation Lectures

1919★ 6.7

The War of the Worlds

1897★ 6.6

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Songs

2

She Blinded Me With ScienceThomas Dolby

She Blinded Me With Science

1982★ 4.5

Charlie Darwin

2009★ 3.9