8,157 Quotes About Science
- Author philip pullman
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As for what it's against - the story is against those who pervert and misuse religion, or any other kind of doctrine with a holy book and a priesthood and an apparatus of power that wields unchallengeable authority, in order to dominate and suppress human freedoms.
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- Author Mwanandeke Kindembo
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Always use the sharp knife of the philosophers to make sense at anything presented before you and come to the land of logic.
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- Author Ernest Rutherford
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If, as I have reason to believe, I have disintegrated the nucleus of the atom, this is of greater significance than the war.[Apology to the international anti-submarine committee for being absent from several meetings during World War I.]
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- Author Humberto Contreras
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What will we be doing, when everything that can be done, can be done better by robots?
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- Author Alfred North Whitehead
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It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.
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- Author Timothy Ferris
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We stand at the onset of a great age of adventure—and always shall, so long as we keep doing science.
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- Author Jay Williams
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Boy! There are times when I get the feeling that science develops things that are supposed to be good for us, but that just make trouble.”Dr. Tresselt’s blue eyes seemed to throw out sparks of amusement. “I know how you feel, Joe,” he said. “But my stars, boy, nobody can be alive and never have any trouble! Being alive is just meeting troubles every day and overcoming them. Just to stand up straight against the pull of gravity is a fight, isn’t it?
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- Author Steven Magee
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Failures are the directions to discovery.
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- Author Dan Brown
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Energetically speaking, antimatter is the mirror image of matter, so the two instantly cancel each other out if they come in contact.Keeping antimatter isolated from matter is a challenge, of course, because everything on earth is made of matter. The samples have to be stored without ever touching anything at all—even air.
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