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We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it. It must be done for itself, for the beauty of science, and then there is always the chance that a scientific discovery may become like the radium a benefit for humanity.: Marie Curie (1867 - 1934), Lecture at Vassar College, May 14, 1921
There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.: Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968), Strength to Love, 1963
A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.: Max Planck, Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers, 1950
As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.: Noam Chomsky (1928 - ), in a television interview
In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.: Paul Dirac (1902 - 1984)
I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.: Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988)
Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive, and probably wrong.: Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988)
Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers.: Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944), Attributed in Robert L. Weber "More Random Walks in Science", 1982
In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not the man to whom the idea first occurs.: Sir Francis Darwin (1848 - 1925), Eugenics Review, April 1914
The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.: Sir William Bragg (1862 - 1942)
In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.: Stephen Jay Gould (1941 - 2002)
The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.: Stephen Jay Gould (1941 - 2002)
The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.: Steven Weinberg (1933 - )
Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense, differing from the latter only as a veteran may differ from a raw recruit: and its methods differ from those of common sense only as far as the guardsman's cut and thrust differ from the manner in which a savage wields his club.: Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)
The great tragedy of Science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.: Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)
If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.: Vannevar Bush (1890 - 1974)
Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.: Will Durant (1885 - 1981), The Story of Philosophy, 1926


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