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There is not much that even the most socially responsible scientists can do as individuals, or even as a group, about the social consequences of their activities.
-E. J. Hobsbawm
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Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.
-Elbert Hubbard
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To overturn orthodoxy is no easier in science than in philosophy, religion, economics, or any of the other disciplines through which we try to comprehend the world and the society in which we live.
-Ruth Hubbard
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The mythology of science asserts that with many different scientists all asking their own questions and evaluating the answers independently, whatever personal bias creeps into their individual answers is cancelled out when the large picture is put together. This might conceivably be so if scientists were women and men from all sorts of different cultural and social backgrounds who came to science with very different ideologies and interests. But since, in fact, they have been predominantly university-trained white males from privileged social backgrounds, the bias has been narrow and the product often reveals more about the investigator than about the subject being researched.
-Ruth Hubbard
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Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.
-Aldous Huxley
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We are living now, not in the delicious intoxication induced by the early successes of science, but in a rather grisly morning-after, when it has become apparent that what triumphant science has done hitherto is to improve the means for achieving unimproved or actually deteriorated ends.
-Aldous Huxley
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No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life.
-Thomas Henry Huxley
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I know of no department of natural science more likely to reward a man who goes into it thoroughly than anthropology. There is an immense deal to be done in the science pure and simple, and it is one of those branches of inquiry which brings one into contact with the great problems of humanity in every direction.
-Thomas Henry Huxley
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Science is simply common sense at its best--that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
-Thomas Henry Huxley
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In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.
-Thomas Henry Huxley
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The great tragedy of science -- the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
-Thomas Henry Huxley
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Surely it must be plain that an ingenious man could speculate without end on both sides, and find analogies for all his dreams. Nor does it help me to tell me that the aspirations of mankind
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-Thomas Henry Huxley
Letter to Charles Kingsley, September 23, 1860
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Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.
-Robert G. Ingersoll
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There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.
-P. D. James
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Man lives for science as well as bread.
-William James
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To expect that the intricacies of science will be pierced by a careless glance, or the eminences of fame ascended without labour, is to expect a peculiar privilege, a power denied to the rest of mankind; but to suppose that the maze is inscrutable to diligence, or the heights inaccessible to perseverance, is to submit tamely to the tyranny of fancy, and enchain the mind in voluntary shackles.
-Samuel Johnson
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All science is either physics or stamp collecting.
-Lord Kelvin
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Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
Strength to Love, 1963
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We have genuflected before the god of science only to find that it has given us the atomic bomb, producing fears and anxieties that science can never mitigate.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
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For undemocratic reasons and for motives not of State, they arrive at their conclusions -- largely inarticulate. Being void of self-expression they confide their views to none; but sometimes in a smoking room, one learns why things were done.
-Rudyard Kipling
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The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.
-Paul Klee
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Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity.
-Arthur Koestler
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Science is a game we play with God, to find out what his rules are.
-Cornelius Krasel
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The historian of science may be tempted to exclaim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them.
-Thomas S. Kuhn
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In everything that relates to science, I am a whole Encyclopaedia behind the rest of the world.
-Charles Lamb
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Books about Science
