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"Science is not about building a body of known 'facts'. It is a method for asking awkward questions and subjecting them to a reality-check, thus avoiding the human tendency to believe whatever makes us feel good." Terry Pratchett 5 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Nothing before had ever made me thoroughly realise, though I had read various scientific books, that science consists in grouping facts so that general laws or conclusions may be drawn from them." Charles Darwin 5 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it." Richard P. Feynman 4.9186046511627906 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"All theoretical chemistry is really physics; and all theoretical chemists know it." Richard P. Feynman 4.894736842105263 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?" Albert Einstein 4.888888888888889 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another." Plato 4.857142857142857 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong." Albert Einstein 4.846153846153846 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"What is now proved was once only imagined." William Blake 4.8 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"If one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of his creation it would appear that God has a special fondness for stars and beetles." J.B.S. Haldane 4.8 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"To those who do not know mathematics it is difficult to get across a real feeling as to the beauty, the deepest beauty, of nature. If you want to learn about nature, to appreciate nature, it is necessary to understand the language that she speaks in." Richard P. Feynman 4.8 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny...'" Isaac Asimov 4.782608695652174 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too." Christopher Morley 4.75 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"It is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science." Charles Darwin 4.75 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe." Galileo Galilei 4.7407407407407405 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity." Albert Einstein 4.705882352941177 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"The more I study science, the more I believe in God." Albert Einstein 4.697368421052632 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Man's conquest of Nature turns out, in the moment of its consummation, to be Nature's conquest of Man." C.S. Lewis 4.666666666666667 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Now my own suspicion is that the Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose." J.B.S. Haldane 4.666666666666667 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?" Stephen Hawking 4.636363636363637 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't." Lyall Watson 4.625 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote


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