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Science is the topography of ignorance.
Science is the topography of ignorance.
If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
Respectable Professors of the Dismal Science.
Respectable Professors of the Dismal Science.
O star-eyed Science, hast thou wander'd there,
To waft us home the message of despair?
O star-eyed Science, hast thou wander'd there,
To waft us home the message of despair?
There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That's perfectly all right; they're the aperture to finding out what's read more
There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That's perfectly all right; they're the aperture to finding out what's right. Science is a self-correcting process. To be accepted, new ideas must survive the most rigorous standards of evidence and scrutiny.
The scientific theory I like the best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline baggage.
The scientific theory I like the best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline baggage.
It sounds paradoxical to say the attainment of scientific truth has been effected, to a great extent, by the help read more
It sounds paradoxical to say the attainment of scientific truth has been effected, to a great extent, by the help of scientific errors
It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as read more
It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.
The pursuit of the good and evil are now linked in astronomy as
in almost all science. . . read more
The pursuit of the good and evil are now linked in astronomy as
in almost all science. . . . The fate of human civilization will
depend on whether the rockets of the future carry the
astronomer's telescope or a hydrogen bomb.
