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The negative
cautions of science are never popular. If the
experimentalist would not commit himself, the social
philosopher, the preacher, and the pedagogue tried the
harder to give a short-cut answer.
-- Margaret Mead
1901-1978, American
Anthropologist
From man or
angel the great Architect did wisely to conceal, and not
divulge his secrets to be scanned by them who ought rather
admire; or if they list to try conjecture, he his fabric of
the heavens left to their disputes, perhaps to move his
laughter at their quaint opinions wide hereafter, when they
come to model heaven calculate the stars, how they will
wield the mighty frame, how build, unbuild, contrive to save
appearances, how gird the sphere with centric and eccentric
scribbled o'er, and epicycle, orb in orb.
-- John Milton
1608-1674, British Poet
Every formula
which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.
-- Maria Mitchell
1943-, Canadian Singer,
Songwriter
Science has
proof without any certainty. Creationists have Certainty
without any proof.
-- C. E. Montague
1867-1928, British Author,
Journalist
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The sciences
do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret,
they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical
construct which, with the addition of certain verbal
interpretations describes observed phenomena. The
justification of such a mathematical construct is solely and
precisely that it is expected to work.
-- John Von Neumann
I seem to have
been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting
myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a
prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of
truth lay all undiscovered before me.
-- Sir Isaac Newton
1642-1727, British Scientist,
Mathematician
Oh, how much
is today hidden by science! Oh, how much it is expected to
hide!
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
1844-1900, German Philosopher
Science has
not solved problems, only shifted the points of problems.
-- Charles H. Parkhurst
1842-1933, American
Clergyman, Reformer
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