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Quotations by Subject: Science (38 quotes)

Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.: Rebecca West (1892 - 1983)
Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science.: Gary Zukav, "The Dancing Wu Li Masters"
I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true.: Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996)
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Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science.: Henri Poincare (1854 - 1912)
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Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
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The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.: Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986)
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Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.: Peter Borden
A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), The Gay Science, section 41
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The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), The Gay Science, section 191
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I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale.: Marie Curie (1867 - 1934)
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