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Science is all metaphor.
-Timothy Leary
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The future of humanity is uncertain, even in the most prosperous countries, and the quality of life deteriorates; and yet I believe that what is being discovered about the infinitely large and infinitely small is sufficient to absolve this end of the century and millennium. What a very few are acquiring in knowledge of the physical world will perhaps cause this period not to be judged as a pure return of barbarism.
-Primo Levi
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For me chemistry represented an indefinite cloud of future potentialities which enveloped my life to come in black volutes torn by fiery flashes, like those which had hidden Mount Sinai. Like Moses, from that cloud I expected my law, the principle of order in me, around me, and in the world. I would watch the buds swell in spring, the mica glint in the granite, my own hands, and I would say to myself: I will understand this, too, I will understand everything.
-Primo Levi
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The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.
-Claude Levi-Strauss
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Science is the systematic classification of experience.
-George Henry Lewes
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When we say science we can either mean any manipulation of the inventive and organizing power of the human intellect: or we can mean such an extremely different thing as the religion of science, the vulgarized derivative from this pure activity manipulated by a sort of priestcraft into a great religious and political weapon.
-Percy Wynham Lewis
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The puritanical potentialities of science have never been forecast. If it evolves a body of organized rites, and is established as a religion, hierarchically organized, things more than anything else will be done in the name of decency. The coarse fumes of tobacco and liquors, the consequent tainting of the breath and staining of white fingers and teeth, which is so offensive to many women, will be the first things attended to.
-Percy Wynham Lewis
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The most heated defenders of a science, who cannot endure the slightest sneer at it, are commonly those who have not made very much progress in it and are secretly aware of this defect.
-G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg
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There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.
-G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg
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In this acausal world, scientists are helpless. Their predictions become postdictions- Their equations become justifications, their logic, illogic. Scientists turn reckless and mutter like gamblers who cannot stop betting. Scientists are buffoons, not because they are rational but because the cosmos is irrational. Or perhaps it is not because the cosmos is irrational but because they are rational. Who can say which, in an acausal world?
-Alan Lightman
Einstein
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If it can't be expressed in figures, it's not science it's opinion.
-Lazarus Long
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There's nothing colder than chemistry.
-Anita Loos
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It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.
-Konrad Lorenz
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Truth in science can best be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.
-Konrad Lorenz
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Science has always been too dignified to invent a good backscratcher.
-Don Marquis
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Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science.
-Karl Marx
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The product of mental labor -- science -- always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.
-Karl Marx
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In science, all facts no matter how trivial, enjoy democratic equality.
-Mary McCarthy
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There's not a whole lot of new atoms out there.
-Denny McDonough
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The negative cautions of science are never popular. If the experimentalist would not commit himself, the social philosopher, the preacher, and the pedagogue tried the harder to give a short-cut answer.
-Margaret Mead
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From man or angel the great Architect did wisely to conceal, and not divulge his secrets to be scanned by them who ought rather admire; or if they list to try conjecture, he his fabric of the heavens left to their disputes, perhaps to move his laughter at their quaint opinions wide hereafter, when they come to model heaven calculate the stars, how they will wield the mighty frame, how build, unbuild, contrive to save appearances, how gird the sphere with centric and eccentric scribbled o'er, and epicycle, orb in orb.
-John Milton
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Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.
-Maria Mitchell
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Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have Certainty without any proof.
-C. E. Montague
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The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct which, with the addition of certain verbal interpretations describes observed phenomena. The justification of such a mathematical construct is solely and precisely that it is expected to work.
-John Von Neumann
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We must be physicists in order to be creative since so far codes of values and ideals have been constructed in ignorance of physics or even in contradiction to physics.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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Books about Science
