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“There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.”

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German physicist, inventor, and writer, known for his research in electricity and magnetism. He proposed Lichtenberg's law in electricity and invented various scientific instruments. more

“Tobacco has not yet been fully tried before the bar of science. But the tribunal has been prepared and the gathering of evidence has begun and when the final verdict is rendered, it will appear that tobacco is evil and only evil; that as a drug it is far more deadly than alcohol, killing in a dose a thousand times smaller, and that it does not possess a single one of the quasi merits of alcohol.”

Doe Has Beens Science Evil Drug Thousand Evidence Accounts Prepared Killing Finals Alcohol Bars Merit Gathering Tobacco Dose Verdict Tribunals

Book:Tobaccoism;: Or, How Tobacco Kills,

Source: Tobaccoism;: Or, How Tobacco Kills,

“Toil of science swells the wealth of art.”

Art Science Wealth Accounts Toil

Book:Complete works. Ed. with careful rev. and new tr., by C.J. Hempel

Source: Complete works. Ed. with careful rev. and new tr., by C.J. Hempel

“We hail science as man's truest friend and noblest helper.”

Men Science Accounts Truest Hail Helpers

Author:Moses Harvey

“We men who serve science serve only a reflection in a mirror.”

Men Science Reflection Accounts Mirrors

Book:Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure

Source: Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure

“Well-observed facts, though brought to light by passing theories, will never die; they are the material on which alone the house of science will at last be built.”

Wells Facts Light Lasts Science Death Dies House Materials Theory Built Accounts Passing Passings

Book:An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine

Source: An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine

“When a physician is called to a patient, he should decide on the diagnosis, then the prognosis, and then the treatment. ... Physicians must know the evolution of the disease, its duration and gravity in order to predict its course and outcome. Here statistics intervene to guide physicians, by teaching them the proportion of mortal cases, and if observation has also shown that the successful and unsuccessful cases can be recognized by certain signs, then the prognosis is more certain.”

Source: An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine

“When science advances religion goes along with it; science builds the altar at which religion prays.”

Science Religion Praying Accounts Altars

Book:The People's Bible: Discourses Upon Holy Scripture

Source: The People's Bible: Discourses Upon Holy Scripture

“You have ... been told that science grows like an organism. You have been told that, if we today see further than our predecessors, it is only because we stand on their shoulders. But this [Nobel Prize Presentation] is an occasion on which I should prefer to remember, not the giants upon whose shoulders we stood, but the friends with whom we stood arm in arm ... colleagues in so much of my work.”

Ifs Should Has Beens Today Remember Science Grows Arms Accounts Shoulders Occasions Giants Prize Organisms Colleagues Presentation Nobel Nobel Prize Predecessors

Author:Peter Medawar

“Nowadays games immediately appear on the Internet and thus the life of novelties is measured in hours. Modern professionals do not have the right to be forgetful - it is 'life threatening'.”

Games Hours Modern Theory Internet Chess Threatening Novelty Forgetful

Author:Garry Kasparov

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