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"Just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts."
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"It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature."
"The total amount of energy from outside the solar system ever received by all the radio telescopes on the planet Earth is less than the energy of a single snowflake striking the ground."
"Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know."
"What Galileo and Newton were to the seventeenth century, Darwin was to the nineteenth."
"Learn about the world, the way it works, any kind of science and anthropology, it's really an interesting place we live in. Evolution is a really fantastic idea, even more than the idea of God I think."
"The publication of the third volume of Capital has made hardly any impression upon bourgeois economic science."
"I think philosophers can do things akin to theoretical scientists, in that, having read about empirical data, they too can think of what hypotheses and theories might account for that data. So there's a continuity between philosophy and science in that way."
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"One would have to have completely forgotten the history of science so as to not remember that the desire to know nature has had the most constant and the happiest influence on the development of mathematics."
"If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living."
"Absolute space, that is to say, the mark to which it would be necessary to refer the earth to know whether it really moves, has no objective existence."
"If one looks at the different problems of the integral calculus which arise naturally when one wishes to go deep into the different parts of physics, it is impossible not to be struck by the analogies existing."
"What is it indeed that gives us the feeling of elegance in a solution, in a demonstration?"
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