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Quote by Charles Darwin

“Nothing before had ever made me thoroughly realise, though I had read various scientific books, that science consists in grouping facts so that general laws or conclusions may be drawn from them.”

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Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin, a British naturalist, is renowned as the founder of evolutionary biology. Born on February 12, 1809, in England, he passed away on April 19, 1882. Darwin is best known for his research on the theory of evolution, which proposed that species evolve through natural selection and survival of the fittest. more

“Our emphasis on science has resulted in an alarming rise in world populations, the demand and ever-increasing emphasis of science to improve their standards and maintain their vigor. I have been forced to the conclusion that an over-emphasis of science weakens character and upsets life's essential balance.”

World Has Beens Character Science Results Balance Demand Essentials Standards Accounts Population Conclusion Upset Emphasis Vigor World Population

Author:Charles Lindbergh

“Our national policies will not be revoked or modified, even for scientists. If the dismissal of Jewish scientists means the annihilation of contemporary German science, then we shall do without science for a few years.”

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Author:Adolf Hitler

“Philosophy is the science which considers truth.”

Philosophy Truth Science Accounts Philosophical

Book:Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study

Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study

“Physicists only talk to physicists, economists to economists-worse still, nuclear physicists only talk to nuclear physicists and econometricians to econometricians. One wonders sometimes if science will not grind to a stop in an assemblage of walled-in hermits, each mumbling to himself words in a private language that only he can understand.”

Ifs Stills Sometimes Science Language Understanding Wonder Accounts Nuclear Economist Physicist Grind Hermits Assemblage

Book:Illustrating Economics: Beasts, Ballads and Aphorisms

Source: Illustrating Economics: Beasts, Ballads and Aphorisms

“Plutus himself, That knows the tinct and multiplying med'cine, Hath not in nature's mystery more science Than I have in this ring.”

Knows Science Nature Natural Mystery Accounts Medicine Rings Multiplying Meds

Book:All's Well That Ends Well

Source: All's Well That Ends Well

“Poetry, mythology, and religion represent the world as man would like to have it, while science represents the world as he gradually comes to discover it.”

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Author:Joseph Wood Krutch

“Putting on the spectacles of science in expectation of finding an answer to everything looked at signifies inner blindness.”