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Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

God runs electromagnetics by wave theory on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and the Devil runs them by quantum theory on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday.
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Sir William Bragg (1862 - 1942)
The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.
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Sir William Bragg (1862 - 1942)
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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.
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Vannevar Bush (1890 - 1974)
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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.
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Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)
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The great tragedy of Science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
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Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)
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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
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Immanuel Kant (1724 - 1804)
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There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.
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Louis Pasteur (1822 - 1895)
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All science is either physics or stamp collecting.
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Ernest Rutherford (1871 - 1937), in J. B. Birks "Rutherford at Manchester" (1962)
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The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.
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Paul Valery (1871 - 1945), 1895
I know nothing about sex because I was always married.
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Zsa Zsa Gabor (1919 - )
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