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In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual
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The great tragedy of Science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact (Collected Essays)
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Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.
View quotes by Edmund Hillary

Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.
View quotes by J G Ballard

Economics is the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses.
View quotes by Lord Robbins

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
View quotes by George Bernard Shaw

Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.
View quotes by Woodrow Wilson

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.
View quotes by Charles Darwin

I wrote somewhere during the Cold War that I sometimes wish the Iron Curtain were much taller than it is, so that you could see whether the development of science with no communication was parallel on the two sides.
View quotes by Thomas Gold

After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form
View quotes by Albert Einstein

Science is a kind of glorified tailoring enterprise, a method for taking measurements that describe something — reality — that may not be understood at all.
View quotes by Michael Crichton

Religious people split into three main groups when faced with science. I shall label them the 'know-nothings', the 'know-alls', and the 'no-contests'.
View quotes by Richard Dawkins

Religious people split into three main groups when faced with science. I shall label them the 'know-nothings', the 'know-alls', and the 'no-contests'.
View quotes by Richard Dawkins

Business is not financial science, it's about trading... buying and selling. It's about creating a product or service so good that people will pay for it.
View quotes by Anita Roddick

It is the tension between the scientist's laws and his own attempted breaches of them that powers the engines of science and makes it forge ahead. (Quiddities)
View quotes by W V O Quine

History, as it lies at the root of all science, is also the first distinct product of man's spiritual nature; his earliest expression of what can be called Thought
View quotes by Thomas Carlyle

Well: what we gain by science is, after all, sadness, as the Preacher saith. The more we know of the laws and nature of the Universe the more ghastly a business we perceive it all to be - and the non-necessity of it.
View quotes by Thomas Hardy

Rome is the one great spiritual organisation which is able to resist and must, as a matter of life and death, the progress of science and modern civilization
View quotes by Thomas Huxley

The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science
View quotes by James Madison

Advances in science and medical research and public health policies have meant that life expectancy for Australians is one of the highest in the world.
View quotes by Julie Bishop

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