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- The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
It is the source of all art and science. - Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
- The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), Physics and Reality [1936]
- Science may have found a cure for most evils, but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all--the apathy of human beings.
- Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
- Conscience is the chamber of justice.
- Origen
- In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.
- William Osler
- There are but few saints amongst scientists, as among other men, but truth itself is a goal comparable with sanctity.
- George Sarton, History of Science
- I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race.
- Thomas Love Peacock
- The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.
- H.P. Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu"
- What can I wish to the youth of my country who devote themselves to science? ...Thirdly, passion. Remember that science demands from a man all his life. If you had two lives that would not be enough for you. Be passionate in your work and in your searching.
- Ivan Pavlov (1849 - 1936)
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