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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)
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)
The great tragedy of Science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
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Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
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Immanuel Kant (1724 - 1804)
There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.
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Louis Pasteur (1822 - 1895)
All science is either physics or stamp collecting.
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Ernest Rutherford (1871 - 1937), in J. B. Birks "Rutherford at Manchester" (1962)
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.
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Stephen Jay Gould (1941 - 2002)
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.
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Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988)
Art is science made clear.
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Jean Cocteau (1889 - 1963)
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
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George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
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