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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 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.
Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that read more
Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery.
If it can't be expressed in figures, it is not science; it is opinion
If it can't be expressed in figures, it is not science; it is opinion
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.
We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his read more
We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's
living at it.
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's
living at it.
The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking read more
The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.
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.
