Science

Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation.

- Bertrand Russell Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgments of all kinds remain necessary.

- Albert Einstein Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Science is always wrong. It never solves a problem without creating ten more.

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I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research.

- Albert Einstein Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation.

- Bertrand Russell Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.

- William Bragg Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

How empty is theory in presence of fact

- Mark Twain Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself.

- Edwin Land Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

We have learned now that we cannot regard this planet as being fenced in and a secure abiding place for Man we can never anticipate the unseen good or evil that may come upon us suddenly out of space.

- H. G. Wells Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Let us suppose that an ichthyologist is exploring the life of the ocean. He casts a net into the water and brings up a fishy assortment. Surveying his catch, he proceeds in the usual manner of a scientist to systematise what it reveals. He arrives at two generalisations (1) No sea-creature is less than two inches long (2) All sea-creatures have gills. These are both true of his catch, and he assumes tentatively that they will remain true however often he repeats it. In applying this analogy, the catch stands for the body of knowledge which constitutes physical science, and the net for the sensory and intellectual equipment which we use in obtaining it. The casting of the net corresponds to observation for knowledge which has not been or could not be obtained by observation is not admitted into physical science. An onlooker may object that the first generalization is wrong. 'There are plenty of sea-creatures under two inches long, only your net is not adapted to catch them.' The icthyologist dismisses this objection contemptuously. 'Anything uncatchable by my net is ipso facto outside the scope of icthyological knowledge. In short, 'what my net can't catch isn't fish.' Or - to translate the analogy - 'If you are not simply guessing, you are claiming a knowledge of the physical universe discovered in some other way than by the methods of physical science, and admittedly unverifiable by such methods. You are a metaphysician. Bah'

- Arthur Stanley Eddington Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say that there ismore stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.

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By ten o'clock the police organization, and by midday even the railway organizations, were losing coherency, losing shape and efficiency, guttering, softening, running at last in that swift liquefaction of the social body.

- H. G. Wells Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

New discoveries in science ... will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who would still adventure.

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There are in fact two things, science and opinion the former begets knowledge. the latter ignorance.

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By the toll of a billion deaths man has bought his birthright of the earth, and it is his against all comers it would still be his were the Martians ten times as mighty as they are. For neither do men live nor die in vain.

- H. G. Wells Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Few people realise the immensity of vacancy in which the dust of the material universe swims.

- H. G. Wells Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

- Immanuel Kant Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.

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If politicians and scientist were lazier, how much happier we should all be.

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All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his Ability to control future events.

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Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

- Martin Luther King Jr. Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Reason, observation, and experience the holy trinity of science.

- Robert Ingersoll Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis Best suited to open the way to the next better one.

- Konrad Lorenz Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.

- Sigmund Freud Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I never yet heard of a useless thing that was not ground out of existence by evolution sooner or later.

- H. G. Wells Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes