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But this same process of the old teaching the young can also cause errors and false conclusions to accumulate with the passage of time. One should therefore study ancient writings, not so much in the hope of finding lost wisdom as in the hope of locating the origin of errors that have been, and still are, accepted truths.
Carl Eckart
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Magic is essentially metaphorical. So are dreams. So is most artistic activity, Finally, theoretical science is essentially disciplined exploitation of metaphor.
Anatol Rapoport
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The foreign policy aim of ants can be summed up as follows: restless aggression, territorial conquest, and genocidal annihilation of neighboring colonies whenever possible. If ants had nuclear weapons, they would probably end the world in a week.
E. O. Wilson
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The Universe is one indivisible, dynamic whole in which energy and matter are so deeply entangled it is impossible to consider them as independent elements.
Bruce Lipton
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Be a physical chemist, an analytical chemist, an organic chemist, if you will; but above all, be a chemist.
Ira Remsen
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There is not a "pure" science. By this I mean that physics impinges on astronomy, on the one hand, and chemistry and biology on the other. And not only does each support neighbors, but derives sustenance from them. The same can be said of chemistry. Biology is, perhaps, the example par excellence today of an "impure" Science.
Melvin Calvin
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It was a wonderful mess at that time. Wonderful! Just great! It was so confusing — physics at its best, when everything is confused and you know something important lies just around the corner.
Abraham Pais
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The simple is the seal of the true and beauty is the splendor of truth.
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
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Questions about a theory which do not affect its ability to predict experimental results correctly seem to me quibbles about words, rather than anything more substantial, and I am quite content to leave such questions to those who derive some satisfaction from them.
John C. Slater
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If I want a word, I make it. I don't like combustion. It's too quiet. I have some stuff in a state of combustication.
Julius Sumner Miller
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If our world is not "the best of all possible worlds" it certainly is the only one in which it is possible to avoid the dilemma of discontinuity.
Alfred Landé
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There are two kinds of micropower. One is co-gen and combined heat and power. That was about two-thirds of the new capacity and three-quarters of the new electricity last year. The rest was distributed or decentralized renewables, which was a $38 billion U.S. global market last year for selling equipment. That's wind, solar, geothermal, small hydro and biomass.... Micropower surpassed nuclear power in worldwide installed capacity in 2002, and surpassed nuclear in electricity generated per year just in the last few months.
Amory Lovins
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The whole history of physics proves that a new discovery is quite likely lurking in the next decimal place.
Floyd K. Richtmyer
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Humility is indeed a distinctive quality of every scientific mind; not humility before man and man-made images, but before the marvellous universe in which the Earth is only a particle.
Henry Augustus Rowland
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If one can tell ahead of time what one's research is going to be, the research problem cannot be very deep and may be said to be almost nonexistent.
Alfred Schild
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Even within the realm of the strictly scientific; we need constant touch with the concrete realities of living nature to prevent our picturing her as exclusively such as we make her in our specialties and in our private dreams.
Ralph Vary Chamberlin
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We look to medical research to discover remedial measures to insure better health and more happiness for mankind.
Thomas Hunt Morgan
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The downside of skepticism: it can easily turn into an arrogant position of a priori rejection of any new phenomenon or idea, a position that is as lacking in critical thinking as the one of the true believer, and that simply does not help either science or the public at large.
Massimo Pigliucci
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Although I was first drawn to math and science by the certainty they promised, today I find the unanswered questions and the unexpected connections at least as attractive.
Lisa Randall
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The greatest problem encountered by students in geology is the necessity for a complete reorganization of their concepts of space and time.
Robert Garrels
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I have just joined the Board of the Population Institute because I am convinced that early stabilization of the world's population is important for the attainment of this objective.
Walter Kohn
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Nature possesses an order that one may aspire to comprehend.
Chen-Ning Yang
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Lest those islands still seem to you too remote in space and time to be relevant to our modern societies, just think about the risks... of our increasing globalization and increasing worldwide economic interdependence.
Jared Diamond
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If the wolf is to survive, the wolf haters must be outnumbered. They must be outshouted, out financed, and out voted. Their narrow and biased attitude must be outweighed by an attitude based on an understanding of natural processes.
L. David Mech
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Epidemiology is like a bikini: what is revealed is interesting; what is concealed is crucial.
Peter Duesberg
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