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Science
«Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: 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.»
Author: Charles Darwin
(Author, Naturalist)
| About:
Confidence,
Ignorance,
Knowledge,
Science
| Keywords:
assert, begets, frequently, positively, solved
«If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.»
Author: Isaac Newton
(Mathematician, Physicist)
| About:
Collaboration,
History,
Humility,
Science,
Team work
| Keywords:
further, giants, shoulders
«If we are going to teach creation science as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction.»
Author: Judith Hayes
| About:
Evolution,
Science
| Keywords:
alternative, as an alternative, biological, Creation, creation science, evolution, reproduction, reproductions, theory, theory of evolution
«In an era when the nation's collective imagination is no longer captured by space, real science sometimes has a smaller budget than science fiction.»
Author: Peter Kendall
| About:
Imagination,
Science
| Keywords:
budget, collective, era, science fiction
«If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?»
Author: Dr. Carl Sagan
(Astronomer, Scientist, Writer)
| About:
Belief,
Science
| Keywords:
conceits, deflated, deflates, deflating, disservice, Long To, with conceit
«If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.»
Author: John Burroughs
(Essayist, Naturalist)
| About:
Science,
Theology
| Keywords:
hold fast, sole, theology, verifiable
«If I found any new truths in the sciences, I can say that they follow from, or depend on, five or six principal problems which I succeeded in solving and which I regard as so many battles where the fortunes of war were on my side.»
Author: Rene Descartes
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Scientist)
| About:
Science,
Truth
| Keywords:
fortunes, principal, regard as, sciences, solving, succeeded, The Fortunes, the sciences
«If politics is to become scientific, and if the event is not to be constantly surprising, it is imperative that our political thinking should penetrate more deeply into the springs of human action»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Politics,
Science
| Keywords:
human action, Human Events, imperative, penetrate, surprising
«If scientific discovery has not been an unalloyed blessing, if it has conferred on mankind the power not only to create but also to annihilate, it has at the same time provided humanity with a supreme challenge and a supreme testing»
Author: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
(President)
| About:
Discovery,
Science,
Testing
| Keywords:
annihilate, annihilates, conferred, scientific discovery, Supreme Power, testing, unalloyed