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“Life is not an exact science, it is an art.”— Samuel Butler
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“A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.”— George Bernard Shaw
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“Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein's general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out.”— Stephen Hawking
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“The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.”— Ray Bradbury
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“There can be no truce between science and religion.”— John B. S. Haldane
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“The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired.”— Stephen Hawking
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“Accept nothing, challenge everything.”
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“Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.”— George Eliot
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“Science may have found a cure for most evils but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.”— Helen Keller
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“We live submerged at the bottom of an ocean of the element air, which by unquestioned experiments is known to have weight.”— Evangelista Torricelli
Context:Inventor of the barometer, an instrument used to measure atmospheric pressure.
Source:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23455767
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“The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.”— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.”— William Blake
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“The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.”— Albert Einstein
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“The man of science is a poor philosopher.”— Albert Einstein
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“We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.”— Carl Sagan
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“Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.”— Blaise Pascal
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“Science coverage could be improved by the recognition that science is timeless, and therefore science stories should not need to be pegged to an item in the news.”— Richard Dawkins
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“Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.”— Karl Popper
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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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“Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.”— Donald Knuth
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“This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.”— Thomas Carlyle
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“If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.”— E. O. Wilson
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“I used to think information was destroyed in black hole. This was my biggest blunder, or at least my biggest blunder in science.”— Stephen Hawking
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“Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.”— Alan Turing
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“Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.”— Bertrand Russell