| Quotations on the subject: Science & Nature |
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but "That's funny ..."
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A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour and it seems shorter than a minute. But tell that same man to sit on a hot stove for a minute, it is longer than any hour. That's relativity.
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There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.
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The social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
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In the field of observation, chance favours only the prepared mind.
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Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
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All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control future events.
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There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.
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Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true.
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