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• I do not think that this [the universe] can be explained only by natural causes, and are forced to impute to the wisdom and ingenuity of an intelligent.

  Isaac Newton

  Intelligent, Thinking, Causes

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• I venture to define science as a series of interconnected concepts and conceptual schemes arising from experiment and observation and fruitful of further experiments and observations. The test of a scientific theory is, I suggest, its fruitfulness.

  James Bryant Conant

  Venture, Tests, Theory

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• Natura nihil agit frustra [Nature does nothing in vain] is the only indisputible axiom in philosophy. There are no grotesques in nature; not any thing framed to fill up empty cantons, and unncecessary spaces.

  Thomas Browne

  Nature, Philosophy, Philosophical

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• Torture numbers, and they'll confess to anything.

  Gregg Easterbrook

  Fun, Numbers, Statistics

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• Great Power, capable of everything and only temporarily handicapped by economic difficulties. We are not a great power and never will be again. We are a great nation, but if we continue to behave like a Great Power we shall soon cease to be a great nation. Let us take warning from the fate of the Great Powers of the past and not burst ourselves with pride .

  Henry Tizard

  Fate, Pride, Past

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• First get a clear notion of what you desire to accomplish and then in all probability you will succeed in doing it.

  Henry Maudslay

  Success, Accomplishment, Desire

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• By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death will seize the doctor too.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Death, Medicine

  Cymbeline V.5

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• There must be no barriers for freedom of inquiry... There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any assertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Errors, Doubt, Inquiry

  "J. Robert Oppenheimer" by L. Barnett in Life Magazine, Volume 7, No. 9, International Edition (p. 58), October 24, 1949.

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• The leading distinction in magnets is the sex, male and female, and the next great difference in them is the colour. Those of Magnesia, bordering on Macedonia, are of a reddish black; those of Breotia are more red than black; and the kind that is found in Troas is black, of the female sex, and consequently destitute of attractive power.

  Pliny the Elder

  Sex, Black, Female

  "The Natural History of Pliny".

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• It is a great profession. There is the fascination of watching a figment of the imagination emerge through the aid of science to a plan on paper. Then it moves to realization in stone or metal or energy. Then it brings jobs and homes to men. Then it elevates the standards of living and adds to the comforts of life. That is the engineer's high privilege.

  Herbert Hoover

  Jobs, Moving, Home

  Herbert Hoover (1951). “The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover: Years of adventure, 1874-1920”

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• To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth.

  Evelyn Fox Keller

  Mortality, Claims, Universal Truth

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• In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself - nature does it for you.

  Frank Wilczek

  Funny, Doe, Physics

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• The quantum is that embarrassing little piece of thread that always hangs from the sweater of space-time. Pull it and the whole thing unravels.

  Fred Alan Wolf

  Sweaters, Space, Littles

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• It would be a poor thing to be an atom in a universe without physicists, and physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.

  George Wald

  Knowing, Way, Atoms

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• The effort to reconcile science and religion is almost always made, not by theologians, but by scientists unable to shake off altogether the piety absorbed with their mother's milk.

  H. L. Mencken

  Mother, Effort, Milk

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.248, Knopf

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• The task of asking nonliving matter to speak and the responsibility for interpreting its reply is that of physics.

  Julius Thomas Fraser

  Responsibility, Matter, Tasks

  Julius Thomas Fraser (1987). “Time, the Familiar Stranger”, p.358, Univ of Massachusetts Press

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• It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible proof.

  John Desmond Bernal

  Essence, Long, Transcendentalism

  John Desmond Bernal (1967). “The origin of life”

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• Darwin has interested us in the history of nature's technology.

  Karl Marx

  Technology, Funny Science

  Karl Marx (2007). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production”, p.406, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Ethics and Science need to shake hands.

  Richard Clarke Cabot

  Hands, Needs, Ethics

  The Meaning of Right and Wrong, Introduction

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• There were two kinds of physicists in Berlin: on the one hand there was Einstein, and on the other all the rest.

  Rudolf Ladenburg

  Hands, Two, Berlin

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• Engineering is merely the slow younger brother of physics.

  Steven Molaro

  Brother, Engineering, Physics

  "The Big Bang Theory (TV Series): The Killer Robot Instability". www.imdb.com. 2009.

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• That theory is worthless. It isn't even wrong!

  Wolfgang Pauli

  Theory, Worthless

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• Physicist is both to my mouth and ears so awkward that I think I shall never use it. The equivalent of three separate sounds of "I" in one word is too much.

  Michael Faraday

  Thinking, Awkward, Sound

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• Once a new paradigm takes hold, its acceptance is extraordinarily rapid and one finds few who claim to have adhered to a discarded method.

  Bernard Lown

  Acceptance, Claims, Rapids

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• Newton was not the first of the age of reason, he was the last of the magicians.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Age, Lasts, Firsts

  John Maynard Keynes (2015). “The Essential Keynes”, p.516, Penguin UK

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