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Science Quotes
"In the spirit of science, there really is no such thing as a "failed experiment." Any test that yields valid data is a valid test."
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"That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding."
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"We think that it is the best scientists working in the frontier fields of science who are best able to judge what is good and what is bad - if any - in the application of their scientific research."
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"James Parkinson. George Huntington. Robert Graves. John Down. Now this Lou Gehrig fellow of mine. How did men come to monopolize disease names too?"
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"Science consistently produces a new crop of miraculous truths and dazzling devices every year."
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"But while doing that I'd been following a variety of fields in science and technology, including the work in molecular biology, genetic engineering, and so forth."
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"Science cuts two ways, of course; its products can be used for both good and evil. But there's no turning back from science. The early warnings about technological dangers also come from science."
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"There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths."
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"Science gives us a powerful vocabulary, and it is impossible to produce a vocabulary with which one can only say nice things."
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"The system becomes more coherent as it is further extended. The elements which we require for explaining a new class of facts are already contained in our system. In false theories, the contrary is the case."
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"Philosophically, the universe has really never made things in ones. The Earth is special and everything else is different? No, we've got seven other planets. The sun? No, the sun is one of those dots in the night sky. The Milky Way? No, it's one of a hundred billion galaxies. And the universe - maybe it's countless other universes."
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"What functions do dreams serve today? One view, published in a reputable scientific paper, holds that the function of dreams is to wake us up a little, every now and then, to see if anyone is about to eat us. But dreams occupy such a relatively small part of normal sleep that this explanation does not seem very compelling. Moreover, as we have seen, the evidence points just the other way: today it is the mammalian predators, not the mammalian prey, who characteristically have dream-filled sleep."
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"Lashley also reported no apparent change in the general behavior of a rat when significant fractions-say 10 percent-of its brain were removed. But no one asked the rat of its opinion."
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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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"The development of physics, like the development of any science, is a continuous one."
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"I think there is a tendency in science to measure what is measurable and to decide that what you cannot measure must be uninteresting."
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"I sort of was good at writing essays. I was never very good at mathematics, and I was never very good at algebra. I loved science, but I wasn't sure of it."
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"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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"Teachers started recognizing me and praising me for being smart in science and that made me want to be even smarter in science!"
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"Daoist thought is the root of science and technology in China."
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"There are a lot of things you can do in space, and space essentially is unlimited resources. We are climbing over ourselves here looking for the next source of energy. The universe has an unlimited source of energy."
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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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"Even at its most perceptive, sociology deals in abstractions."
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