Jean Rostand | science
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Ashley Montagu | science
The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease.
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Edmund Hillary | science
Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.
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Roger Bacon | science
All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious in that no one’s brain rejects it for laymen and people who are utterly illiterate know how to count and reckon.
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Howard Nemerov | science
Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow’s speed.
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Erwin Chargaff | science
Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question ‘How?’ but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question ‘Why?’
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W. H. Auden | science
When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.
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Paul Valery | science
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.
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Stephen Jay Gould | science
In science, ‘fact’ can only mean ‘confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.’ I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.
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