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It is not easy
to imagine how little interested a scientist usually is in
the work of any other, with the possible exception of the
teacher who backs him or the student who honors him.
-- Jean Rostand
1894-1977, French Biologist,
Writer
It is
sometimes important for science to know how to forget the
things she is surest of.
-- Jean Rostand
1894-1977, French Biologist,
Writer
Science is for
those who learn, poetry is for those who know.
-- Joseph Roux
1834-1905, French Priest,
Writer
The work of
science is to substitute facts for appearances, and
demonstrations for impressions.
-- John Ruskin
1819-1900, British Critic,
Social Theorist
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Aristotle
could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have
fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs.
Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.
-- Bertrand Russell
1872-1970, British
Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist
Can a society
in which thought and technique are scientific persist for a
long period, as, for example, ancient Egypt persisted, or
does it necessarily contain within itself forces which must
bring either decay or explosion?
-- Bertrand Russell
1872-1970, British
Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist
In science men
have discovered an activity of the very highest value in
which they are no longer, as in art, dependent for progress
upon the appearance of continually greater genius, for in
science the successors stand upon the shoulders of their
predecessors; where one man of supreme genius has invented a
method, a thousand lesser men can apply it.
-- Bertrand Russell
1872-1970, British
Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist
Science is
what you know, philosophy what you don't know.
-- Bertrand Russell
1872-1970, British
Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist
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