What these thinkers despise in the man of study is precisely the man who does not predicate the capture of its environment by the species, or who, if he does predicate it, as the scientist does by his discoveries, retains for himself only the joy of knowledge and abandons the practical exploitation of his discoveries to others.
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p. 148Julien Benda
Science cannot be stopped. Man will gather knowledge no matter what the consequences and we cannot predict what they will be. Science will go on whether we are pessimistic, or are optimistic, as I am. I know that great, interesting, and valuable discoveries can be made and will be made But I know also that still more interesting discoveries will be made that I have not the imagination to describe and I am awaiting them, full of curiosity and enthusiasm.
Linus Pauling
A lot of my discoveries have already been discovered before. I only see personal significance in these works, as they gave me self-confidence... At first, I've been making long-known discoveries, then not so long-known ones, and then completely new ones.
Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky
The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it.
Oscar Wilde
Profound study of nature is the most fertile source of mathematical discoveries.
Joseph Fourier
A scientist is no more a collector and classifier of facts than a historian is a man who complies and classifies a chronology of the dates of great battles and major discoveries.
Peter Medawar
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