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A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation.
Author: Max Gluckman, Politics, Law and Ritual, 1965
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A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
Author: Max Planck, A Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers, 1949
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There are no physicists in the hottest parts of hell, because the existence of a ‘hottest part’ implies a temperature difference, and any marginally competent physicist would immediately use this to run a heat engine and make some other part of hell comfortably cool. This is obviously impossible.
Author: Richard Davisson
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In comparing religious belief to science, I try to remember that science is belief also.
Author: Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
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Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue.
Author: Robert K. Merton, Social Theory, 1957
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There were two kinds of physicists in Berlin: on the one hand there was Einstein, and on the other all the rest.
Author: Rudolph Ladenburg
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Science is all those things which are confirmed to such a degree that it would be unreasonable to withhold one’s provisional consent.
Author: Stephen Jay Gould
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But the great tragedy of Science – the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact – which is so constantly being enacted under the eyes of philosophers…
Author: T.H. Huxley, ‘Biogenesis and Abiogenesis,’ The Royal Society President’s Address to the Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science at Liverpool, Critiques and Addresses, 1870, Collected Essays VIII
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No one should approach the temple of science with the soul of a money changer.
Author: Thomas Browne
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The improver of natural science absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, scepticism is the highest of duties: blind faith the one unpardonable sin.
Author: Thomas Henry Huxley, Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews, 1871
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Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
Author: William James, The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy, 1910
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The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.
Author: William Lawrence Bragg
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. . . the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
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… all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike–yet it is the most precious thing we have.
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…scientific theorey is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.
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363 feet of gleaming white equipment being pushed up through the blue skies of Florida…
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A biophysicist talks physics to the biologists and biology to the physicists, but then he meets another biophysicist, they just discuss women. ~Author Unknown
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A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.
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A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.- George Bernard Shaw
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A friend called me up the other day and talked about investing in a dot-com that sells lobsters. Internet lobsters. Where will this end? The next day he sent me a huge package of lobsters on ice. How low can you stoop?
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