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Science Quotes - random


John Polanyi | Science Quotes
Authority in science exists to be questioned, since heresy is the spring from which new ideas flow.
Thomas De Quincey
In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage.
Marie Curie
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.




Nassim Nicholas Taleb
In science you need to understand the world; in business you need others to misunderstand it.
Gregory Benford
It was getting the results that made science worth doing; the accolades were a thin, secondary pleasure.
Ronald Reagan | Science Quotes
The size of the Federal budget is not an appropriate barometer of social conscience or charitable concern.
C. J. Cherryh
For me the purest and truest art in the world is science fiction.
Donald Knuth
Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Man has to awaken to wonder — and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.
Harvey Brown (philosopher)
It is far easier to learn science first and philosophy later than the other way round!
He doesn't believe a trumpet and a megaphone are part of a scientist's equipment.




Karl Popper
Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
Ogden Nash
I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it.
Claude Bernard
Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science.
Alvaro De Rujula
Science is what we do when we don't know what we're doing.
Anton Chekhov | Science Quotes
The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on; science and art are as well.
Louis Pasteur
A little science estranges men from God, but much science leads them back to Him.
Bertrand Russell
The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.
James Beattie
By the glare of false science betray’d,
That leads to bewilder, and dazzles to blind.
Vladimir Lenin
I absolutely do not pretend in the slightest fashion to knowledge of military science.


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