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Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.
Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.
One science only will one genius fit,
So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
One science only will one genius fit,
So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts.
Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts.
When Kepler found his long-cherished belief did not agree with the most precise observation, he accepted the uncomfortable fact. He read more
When Kepler found his long-cherished belief did not agree with the most precise observation, he accepted the uncomfortable fact. He preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions; that is the heart of science.
Science may have found a cure for most evils, but it has found no remedy for the worst of them read more
Science may have found a cure for most evils, but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all--the apathy of human beings.
Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion.
Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion.
The essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are
on the way to a pertinent answer.
The essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are
on the way to a pertinent answer.
It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on
the human mind it has overcome man's read more
It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on
the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself
and before nature.
Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish
the barriers of nationality.
[Ger., Wissenschaft read more
Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish
the barriers of nationality.
[Ger., Wissenschaft und Kunst gehoren der Welt an, und vor ihhen
verschwinden die Schranken der Nationalitat.]