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Science Quotes
"We know evolution happened because innumerable bits of data from myriad fields of science conjoin to paint a rich portrait of life's pilgrimage."
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"We had an erector set, and I was an avid fan of Popular Mechanics and Popular Science magazines."
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"There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science."
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"Statistics is the grammar of science."
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"In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last."
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"How thoroughly it is ingrained in mathematical science that every real advance goes hand in hand with the invention of sharper tools and simpler methods which, at the same time, assist in understanding earlier theories and in casting aside some more complicated developments."
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"Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be."
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"It is this conception of the unity of the human career which is perhaps the greatest achievement of historical study, since it gained a place analogous to that of natural science."
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"Smart radiation researchers use radiation resistance health techniques in order to offset the known biological harm of their toxic radiation exposures."
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"Mathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole, an organism whose vitality is conditioned upon the connection of its parts."
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"In requiring this candor and simplicity of mind in those who would investigate the truth of our religion, Christianity demands nothing more than is readily conceded to every branch of human science."
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"I also think we need to maintain distinctions - the doctrine of creation is different from a scientific cosmology, and we should resist the temptation, which sometimes scientists give in to, to try to assimilate the concepts of theology to the concepts of science."
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"Thence results, for science as well as for industry, the necessity of the division and association of labor. I receive and I give - such is human life. Each directs and is directed in his turn."
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"Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories."
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"The violent reaction on the recent development of modern physics can only be understood when one realises that here the foundations of physics have started moving; and that this motion has caused the feeling that the ground would be cut from science."
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"To measure is to determine the ratio of one quantity to another which is invariable or assumed to be invariable. Invariability in respect of the property to be measured, or at least the legitimacy of assuming such invariability, is a sine qua non of all measurement. Only when this assumption is admissible is it possible to determine the variations that are to be measured."
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"The Earth orbits round tables."
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"In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern."
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"Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts."
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"Our universe is a sorry little affair unless it has in it something for every age to investigate."
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"It is the theory which decided what can be observed."
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"Biology includes the study of the human death which began when you took your first breath."
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"Like all great things which then become fashions, science, as now the universal stamp of approval, probably receives more abuse than any other field of study. Glaze the word itself over whatever vague ideology one may presume ratified, no matter the degree of pseudo-science or lack of scholarly credibility packaged within, and the many will consume it like gravy on a feast. My thought for the time is that as the promise of true science increases, so shall rise its many more superficial counterparts as provided by the agenda-bound trendies and hyper-ambitious laypersons to boot."
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"The development of physics, like the development of any science, is a continuous one."
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"It seems true that the growth of science and secularism made organized Christianity feel under threat."
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"How the human system is happening, in the same way the universe has happened. In the same way that the micro is happening, that is how the macro has happened. If you look at the micro and perceive it, you will also know existence."
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"Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic."
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"A bullet fired level from a gun will hit ground at same time as a bullet dropped from the same height. Do the Physics."
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"The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction."
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"It seems that this situation is not restricted to science but is more generally human."
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"To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population."
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"When I began writing science fiction in the middle '60s, it seemed very easy to find ideas that took decades to percolate into the cultural consciousness; now the lead time seems more like eighteen months."
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"The developing science departs at the same time more and more from its original scope and purpose and threatens to sacrifice its earlier unity and split into diverse branches."
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"DNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any software ever created."
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"Some people will bring up evolutionary biology and apes, how female apes bow to male apes - that sort of thing. But the point is this: we are not apes. Apes also live in trees and eat earthworms. We do not."
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