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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
-John Dewey
The Quest for Certainty
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Faith is a fine invention when Gentleman can see -- but microscopes are prudent in an emergency
-Emily Dickinson
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Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world.
-Denis Diderot
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The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.
-Benjamin Disraeli
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Let me arrest thy thoughts; wonder with me, why plowing, building, ruling and the rest, or most of those arts, whence our lives are blest, by cursed Cain's race invented be, and blest Seth vexed us with Astronomy.
-John Donne
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Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.
-Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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I am acutely aware of the fact that the marriage between mathematics and physics which was so enormously fruitful in past centuries, has recently ended in divorce.
-Freeman Dyson
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Thus will the fondest dream of Phallic science be realized: a pristine new planet populated entirely by little boy clones of great scientific entrepreneurs free to smash atoms, accelerate particles, or, if they are so moved, build pyramids -- without any social relevance or human responsibility at all.
-Barbara Ehrenreich
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The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-Paul Ehrlich
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When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.
-Albert Einstein, On relativity
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One needn't be a crank to miss the scientific boat. The very paragon of genius, Albert Einstein, couldn't be persuaded to give quantum physics his unreserved endorsement. Here is Einstein's most frequently paraphrased statement of dissatisfaction with the theory: Quantum mechanics is very impressive. But an inner voice tells me that it is not yet the real thing. The theory yields a lot, but it hardly brings us any closer to the secret of the Old One. In any case I am convinced that He doesn't play dice.
-Albert Einstein
Letter to Max Born, December 4, 1926
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The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.
-Albert Einstein
Telegram, May 24, 1946
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When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
-Albert Einstein
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A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.
-Albert Einstein
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The man of science is a poor philosopher.
-Albert Einstein
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Science is the century-old endeavor to bring together by means of systematic thought the perceptible phenomena of this world into as thorough-going an association as possible.
-Albert Einstein
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Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought.
-Albert Einstein
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Formal symbolic representation of qualitative entities is doomed to its rightful place of minor significance in a world where flowers and beautiful women abound.
-Albert Einstein
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Science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgments of all kinds remain necessary.
-Albert Einstein
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When the number of factors coming into play in a phenomenological complex is too large scientific method in most cases fails.
-Albert Einstein
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The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
-Albert Einstein
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Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science
-Albert Einstein
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There is no method but to be very intelligent.
-TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot
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What terrible questions we are learning to ask! The former men believed in magic, by which temples, cities, and men were swallowed up, and all trace of them gone. We are coming on the secret of a magic which sweeps out of men's minds all vestige of theism and beliefs which they and their fathers held and were framed upon.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Do what we can, summer will have its flies.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Books about Science
