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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
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.
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
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.
Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.
Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.
In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea read more
In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs
The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of
empirical facts by logical deduction from read more
The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of
empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of
hypotheses or axioms.
The science of fools with long memories.
The science of fools with long memories.
There are very few persons who pursue science with true dignity.
- Sir Humphrey Davy,
There are very few persons who pursue science with true dignity.
- Sir Humphrey Davy,