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Science is
nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common
sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
-- George Santayana
1863-1952, American
Philosopher, Poet
Science
becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached
its goal.
-- George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British
Dramatist
Science is
always wrong, it never solves a problem without creating ten
more.
-- George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British
Dramatist
Science is the
great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
-- Adam Smith
1723-1790, Scottish Economist
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Science is
organized knowledge.
-- Herbert Spencer
1820-1903, British
Philosopher
He had been
eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of
cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically
sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement
summers.
-- Jonathan Swift
1667-1745, Anglo-Irish
Satirist
The science of
today is the technology of tomorrow.
-- Edward Teller
American Physicist and Author
If we knew all
the laws of Nature, we should need only one fact, or the
description of one actual phenomenon, to infer all the
particular results at that point. Now we know only a few
laws, and our result is vitiated, not, of course, by any
confusion or irregularity in Nature, but by our ignorance of
essential elements in the calculation. Our notions of law
and harmony are commonly confined to those instances which
we detect; but the harmony which results from a far greater
number of seemingly conflicting, but really concurring,
laws, which we have not detected, is still more wonderful.
The particular laws are as our points of view, as, to the
traveler, a mountain outline varies with every step, and it
has an infinite number of profiles, though absolutely but
one form. Even when cleft or bored through it is not
comprehended in its entireness.
-- Henry David Thoreau
1817-1862, American Essayist,
Poet, Naturalist
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