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I don't know where this here science is to stop, mind you; that's what bothers me.
Charles Dickens
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As free peoples, we recognize that democracy is the most effective form of government ever devised for delivering progress and opportunity and prosperity and freedom to people. And as two of the most innovative economies on Earth, we cherish that freedom that allows us to innovate and create, which is why we're leaders in science and research and development — those things that pioneers new industries and broaden our horizons.
Barack Obama
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All things must be examined, debated, investigated without exception and without regard for anyone's feelings... We must run roughshod over all these ancient puerilities, overturn the barriers that reason never erected, give back to the arts and sciences the liberty that is so precious to them.
Denis Diderot
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For the scientist, there is only "being," but no wishing, no valuing, no good, no evil — in short, no goal. As long as we remain within the realm of science proper, we can never encounter a sentence of the type: "Thou shalt not lie."
Albert Einstein
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Mathematics and physics are the two theoretical sciences of reason, which have to determine their objects a priori.
Immanuel Kant
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Those who have treated of the sciences have been either empirics or dogmatical. The former like ants only heap up and use their store, the latter like spiders spin out their own webs. The bee, a mean between both, extracts matter from the flower of the garden and the field, but works and fashions it by its own efforts.
Francis Bacon
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One must fill oneself with human science. Above all and in spite of all, be a man. Do not fear to surcharge yourself with humanity. Ballast your mind with reality and then throw yourself into the sea — the sea of inspiration.
Victor Hugo
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It has been a bitter mortification for me to digest the conclusion that the "race is for the strong" and that I shall probably do little more but be content to admire the strides others made in science.
Charles Darwin
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Men are further beholding... generally to chance, or anything else, than to logic, for the invention or arts and sciences.
Francis Bacon
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All Mathematics is, properly speaking, an equation on a great scale for the other sciences.
Novalis
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Let not men think there is no truth, but in the sciences that they study, or the books that they read.
John Locke
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The human qualities of the raw materials show through. Naivety, error, contradiction, even (as in the cursing Psalms) wickedness are not removed. The total result is not "the Word of God" in the sense that every passage in itself, gives impeccable science or history. It carries the Word of God.
C. S. Lewis
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The latest refinements of science are linked with the cruelties of the Stone Age.
Winston Churchill
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As much experience, is "prudence;" so, is much science "sapience."
Thomas Hobbes
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On the philosophical level, both Buddhism and modern science share a deep suspicion of any notion of absolutes, whether conceptualize as a transcendent being, as an eternal, unchanging principle such as soul, or as a fundamental substratum of reality.... In the Buddhist investigation of reality, at least in principle, empirical evidence should triumph over scriptural authority, no matter how deeply venerated a scripture may be.
Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama
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Since Copernicus, man seems to have got himself on an inclined plane-now he is slipping faster and faster away from the center into-what? into nothingness? into a 'penetrating sense of his nothingness?'... all science, natural as well as unnatural-which is what I call the self-critique of knowledge-has at present the object of dissuading man from his former respect for himself, as if this had been but a piece of bizarre conceit.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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If it is a terrifying thought that life is at the mercy of the multiplication of these minute bodies [microbes], it is a consoling hope that Science will not always remain powerless before such enemies...
Louis Pasteur
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Now do you not see that the eye embraces the beauty of the whole world? It counsels and corrects all the arts of mankind... it is the prince of mathematics, and the sciences founded on it are absolutely certain. It has measured the distances and sizes of the stars it has discovered the elements and their location... it has given birth to architecture and to perspective and to the divine art of painting.
Leonardo da Vinci
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Mathematics is the Queen of the Sciences, and Arithmetic the Queen of Mathematics.
Carl Friedrich Gauss
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The desire to explain what is simple by what is complex, what is easy by what is difficult, is a calamity affecting the whole body of science, known, it is true, to men of insight, but not generally admitted.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The mind, like all other things, will become impaired, the sciences are its food - they nourish, but at the same time they consume it.
Jean de La Bruyère
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Now, the causes being four, it is the business of the student of nature to know about them all, and if he refers his problems back to all of them, he will assign the 'why' in the way proper to his science—the matter, the form, the mover, that for the sake of which.
Aristotle
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No great discovery was ever made in science except by one who lifted his nose above the grindstone of details and ventured on a more comprehensive vision.
Albert Einstein
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In the study of the sciences which depend on mathematics, those who do not consult nature, but authors, are not the children of nature; they are only her grandchildren. Nature alone is the master of true genius.
Leonardo da Vinci
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Experience itself, the mother of all the sciences.
Miguel de Cervantes
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