8,157 Quotes About Science


  • Author Thomas Pynchon
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    Laboring through a world every day more stultified, which expected salvation in codes and governments, ever more willing to settle for suburban narratives and diminished payoffs--what were the chances of finding anyone else seeking to transcend that, and not even particularly aware of it?

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  • Author James Clerk Maxwell
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    It is of great advantage to the student of any subject to read the original memoirs on that subject, for science is always most completely assimilated when it is in the nascent state...

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  • Author Charles Sherrington
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    Swiftly the brain becomes an enchanted loom, where millions of flashing shuttles weave a dissolving pattern-always a meaningful pattern-though never an abiding one.

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  • Author William Gurstelle
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    Science isn't just about blowing things up. Rather it's about blowing things up and knowing how you did it.

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  • Author Thomas Henry Huxley
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    For these two years I have been gravitating towards your doctrines, and since the publication of your primula paper with accelerated velocity. By about this time next year I expect to have shot past you, and to find you pitching into me for being more Darwinian than yourself. However, you have set me going, and must just take the consequences, for I warn you I will stop at no point so long as clear reasoning will take me further.{Letter of support to Charles Darwin on his theory of evolution}

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