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Science when well digested is nothing but good sense and reason.

Leszczynski Stanislaus ("Stanislaus I")

But beyond the bright searchlights of science, Out of sight of the windows of sense, Old riddles still bid us defiance, Old questions of Why and of Whence.

Sir William Cecil Dampier Whetham

There is only one nature--the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend the whole.

Sir William Cecil Dampier Whetham

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology

Carl Sagan

Art is I; Science is we.

Claude Bernard

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

Albert Einstein

If it can't be expressed in figures, it is not science; it is opinion

Lazarus Long

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

Albert Einstein

The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.

Sir William Bragg

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

Isaac Asimov

The great tragedy of science— the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

Thomas Huxley

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

John Dewey

In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs

Francis Darwin

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny....'

Isaac Asimov

There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be.

Charles Sanders Pierce

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

Adam Smith

Art is meant to upset people, science reassures them.

Georges Brague

We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

Carl Sagan

I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.

Thomas Alva Edison

Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.

Evan Esar

After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are always artists as well.

, Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child In the last decade or so, science has discovered a tremendous amount about the role emotions play in our lives. Researchers have found that even more than IQ, your emotional awareness and abilities to handle feelings will determine your success and happiness in all walks of life, including family relationships. -John Gottman.

John Gottman

Good sense which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven.

Alexander Pope

A very gentle beast, and of a good conscience. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act v. Sc. 1.

William Shakespeare

The collective matrix of a science at a given time is determined by a kind of establishment, which includes universities, learned societies, and, more recently, the editorial offices of technical journals. Like other establishments, they are consciously or unconsciously bent on preserving the status quo- partly because unorthodox innovations are a threat to their authority, but also because of the deeper fear that their laboriously erected an intellectual edifice might collapse under the impact.

Arthur Koestler

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