976 private quotes tagged science

“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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“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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“Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.” — Alan Turing

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“There are naive questions, tedious questions, ill-phrased questions, questions put after inadequate self-criticism. But every question is a cry to understand the world. There is no such thing as a dumb question.” — Carl Sagan

Source:The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

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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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“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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“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.” — Albert Einstein

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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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“Science predicts that many different kinds of universe will be spontaneously created out of nothing. It is a matter of chance which we are in.” — Stephen Hawking

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“Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.” — Karl Popper

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“Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.” — Bertrand Russell

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“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.” — Albert Einstein

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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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“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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“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 usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?” — Stephen Hawking

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“Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.” — Edgar Allan Poe

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“Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.” — Theodore Roosevelt

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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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“We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.” — Carl Jung

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“English is necessary as at present original works of science are in English. I believe that in two decades times original works of science will start coming out in our languages. Then we can move over like the Japanese.” — Abdul Kalam

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“Science is global. Einstein's equation, E=mc2, has to reach everywhere. Science is a beautiful gift to humanity, we should not distort it. Science does not differentiate between multiple races.” — Abdul Kalam

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“Looks like we caught a Dragon by the tail.” — Don Pettit

Context:After successfully docking the SpaceX Dragon capsule with the International Space Station.

Source:http://www.nasa.gov/exploration/commercial/cargo/spacexmi...

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“Traditional science assumes, for the most part, that an objective observer independent reality exists the universe, stars, galaxies, sun, moon and earth would still be there if no one was looking.” — Deepak Chopra

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“A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.” — Alan Perlis

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