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Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.
-Jean Rostand
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When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic.
-Jean Rostand
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Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know.
-Joseph Roux
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The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.
-John Ruskin
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Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.
-Bertrand Russell
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Science is what you know, philosophy what you don't know.
-Bertrand Russell
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In science men have discovered an activity of the very highest value in which they are no longer, as in art, dependent for progress upon the appearance of continually greater genius, for in science the successors stand upon the shoulders of their predecessors; where one man of supreme genius has invented a method, a thousand lesser men can apply it.
-Bertrand Russell
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Can a society in which thought and technique are scientific persist for a long period, as, for example, ancient Egypt persisted, or does it necessarily contain within itself forces which must bring either decay or explosion?
-Bertrand Russell
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Religion and Science are two aspects of social life, of which the former has been important as far back as we know anything of man
-Bertrand Russell
, Religion and Science. London: Oxford University Press, 1935
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It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and unexpected findings of science.
-Carl Sagan
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This is perhaps the most beautiful time in human history; it is really pregnant with all kinds of creative possibilities made possible by science and technology which now constitute the slave of man - if man is not enslaved by it.
-Jonas Salk
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Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
-George Santayana
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Anthropology is the only discipline that can access evidence about the entire human experience on this planet.
-Michael Brian Schiffer
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Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Science is always wrong, it never solves a problem without creating ten more.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
-Adam Smith
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Science is organized knowledge.
-Herbert Spencer
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In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances.
-Herbert Spencer
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He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers.
-Jonathan Swift
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The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.
-Edward Teller
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The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from science, along with behavior control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.
-Lewis Thomas
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If we knew all the laws of Nature, we should need only one fact, or the description of one actual phenomenon, to infer all the particular results at that point. Now we know only a few laws, and our result is vitiated, not, of course, by any confusion or irregularity in Nature, but by our ignorance of essential elements in the calculation. Our notions of law and harmony are commonly confined to those instances which we detect; but the harmony which results from a far greater number of seemingly conflicting, but really concurring, laws, which we have not detected, is still more wonderful. The particular laws are as our points of view, as, to the traveler, a mountain outline varies with every step, and it has an infinite number of profiles, though absolutely but one form. Even when cleft or bored through it is not comprehended in its entireness.
-Henry David Thoreau
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True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time and society consider most important. Art transmits these truths from the region of perception to the region of emotion.
-Leo Tolstoy
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Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money of them.
-Mark Twain
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Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.
-Miguel de Unamuno
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Books about Science
