science Quotes

“But science is a self-correcting enterprise. To be accepted, all new ideas must survive rigorous standards of evidence.”

― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

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“Every beginning is difficult, holds in all sciences.”

― Karl Marx, Das Kapital

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“A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined.”

― David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

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“We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all.”

― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

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“But anyone who is practically acquainted with scientific work is aware that those who refuse to go beyond fact, rarely get as far as fact;”

― Thomas Henry Huxley, The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century

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“And, in fine, of false sciences I thought I knew the worth sufficiently to escape being deceived by the professions of an alchemist, the predictions of an astrologer, the impostures of a magician, or by the artifices and boasting of any of those...”

― René Descartes, Discourse on the Method

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“I think Open Source is the right thing to do the same way I believe science is better than alchemy.”

― Linus Torvalds,

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“In all cases positive palaeontological evidence may be implicitly trusted; negative evidence is worthless, as experience has so often shown.”

― Charles Darwin, On The Origin of Species

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“With the destruction of our social fabric, science will be broken into a million pieces. Individuals will know much of exceedingly tiny facets of what there is to know.”

― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

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“Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.”

― Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy

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