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• No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.476, Princeton University Press

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• Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Nature, Technology, Men

  Universities Quarterly (1956) vol. 10, no. 3, p. 252

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• And, after all, the Athanasian Creed is light and comprehensible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.

  Samuel Butler

  Reading, Light, Creeds

  "The Note-books of Samuel Butler: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition".

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• I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.

  Oliver Cromwell

  Mistake, Thinking, May

  Letter to General Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland, 3 Aug. 1650 See Hand 10

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• A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.

  Charles Darwin

  Heart, Men, Wish

  Charles Darwin, R. C. Stauffer (1987). “Charles Darwin's Natural Selection: Being the Second Part of His Big Species Book Written from 1856 to 1858”, p.279, Cambridge University Press

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• I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.

  Rene Descartes

  Math, Discovery, Judging

  Rene Descartes (2007). “The Geometry of Rene Descartes”, p.240, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Inquiry is fatal to certainty.

  Will Durant

  Learning, Acceptance, Discovery

  Will Durant (2011). “The Age of Faith: The Story of Civilization”, p.1077, Simon and Schuster

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• When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.

  Albert Einstein

  Funny, Girl, Witty

  "News Chronicle" (March 14, 1949), as cited by "The Columbia World of Quotations", 1996.

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• Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.10, Broadway Books

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• The faster you go, the shorter you are.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, God

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• I think science has enjoyed an extraordinary success because it has such a limited and narrow realm in which to focus its efforts. Namely, the physical universe.

  Ken Jenkins

  Thinking, Effort, Focus

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• Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.

  William Blake

  Death, Art, Tree

  William Blake (1968). “William Blake. Textes choisis et presentes par Francis Leaud”

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• [Science is] a great game. It is inspiring and refreshing. The playing field is the universe itself.

  Isidor Isaac Rabi

  Games, Fields, Refreshing

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• Doubt everything or believe everything: these are two equally convenient strategies. With either we dispense with the need for reflection.

  Henri Poincare

  Believe, Reflection, Two

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• But in physics I soon learned to scent out the paths that led to the depths, and to disregard everything else, all the many things that clutter up the mind, and divert it from the essential. The hitch in this was, of course, the fact that one had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examination, whether one liked it or not.

  Albert Einstein

  Mind, Depth, Essentials

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• The Lincoln Highway is to be something more than a road. It will be a road with a personality, a distinctive work of which the Americans of future generations can point with pride - an economic but also artistic triumph. (1914)

  Carl G. Fisher

  Future, Hard Work, Pride

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• Tis a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity, of chemistry, of botany, and so forth.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sight, Law, Limits

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.401

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• The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.

  John Ruskin

  Facts, Appearance, Substitutes

  Stones of Venice Vol. III, Ch. II

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• When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.

  W. H. Auden

  Mistake, Drawing, Rooms

  Dyer's Hand (1963) "The Poet and the City"

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• In some sense man is a microcosm of the universe; therefore what man is, is a clue to the universe. We are enfolded in the universe.

  David Bohm

  Men, Clue, Microcosm

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• It is clear, then, that the idea of a fixed method, or of a fixed theory of rationality, rests on too naive a view of man and his social surroundings. To those who look at the rich material provided by history, and who are not intent on impoverishing it in order to please their lower instincts, their craving for intellectual security in the form of clarity, precision, "objectivity," "truth," it will become clear that there is only one principle that can be defended under all circumstances and in all stages of human development. It is the principle: anything goes.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Truth, Men, Objectivity

  "Against Method". Book by Paul Feyerabend, 1975.

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• It is not error which opposes the progress of truth; it is indolence, obstinacy, the spirit of routine, every thing which favors inaction.

  Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune

  Truth, Errors, Progress

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• Mathematics is a form of poetry which transcends poetry in that it proclaims a truth; a form of reasoning which transcends reasoning in that it wants to bring about the truth it proclaims; a form of action, of ritual behavior, which does not find fulfilment in the act but must proclaim and elaborate a poetic form of truth.

  Salomon Bochner

  Truth, Doe, Want

  Salomon Bochner “Collected Papers of Salomon Bochner”, American Mathematical Soc.

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• Perfect concordance among reformers is not to be expected; and men who are honestly struggling towards the light cannot hope to attain at one bound to the complete truth. There is always a danger lest the fascination of a new discovery should lead us too far. Men of science, being human, are apt, like lovers, to exaggerate the perfections and be a little blind to the faults of the object of their choice.

  Thomas George Bonney

  Truth, Struggle, Men

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• Philosophy became a gloomy science, in the labyrinth of which people vainly tried to find the exit, called The Truth.

  Edward Joseph Schwartz

  Truth, Philosophy, People

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