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Quotations by Subject: Science (38 quotes)

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Almost all reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.: Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946)
Men can do nothing without the make-believe of a beginning. Even Science, the strict measurer, is obliged to start with a make-believe unit, and must fix on a point in the stars' unceasing journey when his sidereal clock shall pretend that time is Nought. His less accurate grandmother Poetry has always been understood to start in the middle; but on reflection it appears that her proceeding is not very different from his; since Science, too, reckons backward as well as forward, divides his unit into billions, and with his clock-finger at Nought really sets off _in medias res_. No retrospect will take us to the true beginning; and whether our prologue be in heaven or on earth, it is but a fraction of that all-presupposing fact with which our story sets out.: George Eliot (1819 - 1880), from "Daniel Deronda"
Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.: Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - )
Nature is earlier than man, but man is earlier than natural science.: von Weizsacker
Because we do not understand the brain very well we are constantly tempted to use the latest technology as a model for trying to understand it. In my childhood we were always assured that the brain was a telephone switchboard. ('What else could it be?') I was amused to see that Sherrington, the great British neuroscientist, thought that the brain worked like a telegraph system. Freud often compared the brain to hydraulic and electro-magnetic systems. Leibniz compared it to a mill, and I am told some of the ancient Greeks thought the brain functions like a catapult. At present, obviously, the metaphor is the digital computer.: John R. Searle, MINDS, BRAINS AND SCIENCE, p 44
There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics... We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of Homer.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
Experience consists of experiencing that which one does not wish to experience: quoted by Freud in "Jokes and Their Relation To The Unconscience?"
Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.: Rebecca West (1892 - 1983)

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