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“I grew up to be indifferent to the distinction between literature and science, which in my teens were simply two languages for experience that I learned together.”

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Jacob Bronowski

Jacob Bronowski was an outstanding mathematician born on January 18, 1908, and died on August 22, 1974. He made significant contributions to the field of mathematics, particularly in topology and mathematical physics. more

“I have said that science is impossible without faith. ... Inductive logic, the logic of Bacon, is rather something on which we can act than something which we can prove, and to act on it is a supreme assertion of faith ... Science is a way of life which can only fluorish when men are free to have faith.”

Men Way Said Science Faith Impossible Prove Logic Accounts Supreme Have Faith Assertion

Author:Norbert Wiener

“Indeed, I suspect that the changes that have taken place during the last century in the average man's fundamental beliefs, in his philosophy, in his conception of religion, in his whole world outlook, are greater than the changes that occurred during the preceding four thousand years all put together.”

“I will venture to say there is more learning and science within the circumference of ten miles from where we now sit [in London], than in all the rest of the kingdom.”

Science Learning Ten Accounts London Miles Kingdoms Venture

Book:The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished

Source: The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished

“I would not for a moment have you suppose that I am one of those idiots who scorns Science, merely because it is always twisting and turning, and sometimes shedding its skin, like the serpent that is [the doctors'] symbol.”

Sometimes Moments Science Doctors Skins Accounts Symbols Idiot Scorn Serpent

Book:Selected Works on the Pleasures of Reading

Source: Selected Works on the Pleasures of Reading

“If a man has a science to learn he must regularly and resolutely advance.”

Ifs Men Science Accounts

Book:The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals

Source: The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals

“If it is a terrifying thought that life is at the mercy of the multiplication of these minute bodies [microbes], it is a consoling hope that Science will not always remain powerless before such enemies.”

Ifs Body Science Life Is Enemy Minutes Mercy Accounts Organisms Powerless Multiplication Consoling Microbes

Author:Louis Pasteur

“If only the fit survive and if the fitter they are the longer they survive, then Volvox must have demonstrated its superb fitness more conclusively than any higher animal ever has.”