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“Science sees signs; Poetry, the thing signified. Co-author with his brother Julius Hare.”

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Augustus William Hare was an English author born on November 17, 1792, and died on January 22, 1834. Known for his travelogues and biographies, he is particularly renowned for his collaborative work on 'The English worthies' with John Clark. more

“Science would not be what it is if there had not been a Galileo, a Newton or a Lavoisier, any more than music would be what it is if Bach, Beethoven and Wagner had never lived. The world as we know it is the product of its geniuses-and there may be evil as well as beneficent genius-and to deny that fact, is to stultify all history, whether it be that of the intellectual or the economic world.”

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Book:What is science?

Source: What is science?

“SCIENCE! thou fair effusive ray From the great source of mental Day, Free, generous, and refin'd! Descend with all thy treasures fraught, Illumine each bewilder'd thought, And bless my labour'g mind.”

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Author:Mark Akenside

“Scientists are human-they're as biased as any other group. But they do have one great advantage in that science is a self-correcting process.”

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Author:Cyril Ponnamperuma

“The aim of scientific work is truth. While we internally recognise something as true, we judge, and while we utter judgements, we assert.”

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Author:Gottlob Frege

“The aims of pure basic science, unlike those of applied science, are neither fast-flowing nor pragmatic. The quick harvest of applied science is the useable process, the medicine, the machine. The shy fruit of pure science is understanding.”

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Author:Lincoln Barnett

“The edifice of science not only requires material, but also a plan. Without the material, the plan alone is but a castle in the air-a mere possibility; whilst the material without a plan is but useless matter.”

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Author:Dmitri Mendeleev

“The fascination of any search after truth lies not in the attainment, which at best is found to be very relative, but in the pursuit, where all the powers of the mind and character are brought into play and are absorbed by the task. One feels oneself in contact with something that is infinite and one finds joy that is beyond expression in sounding the abyss of science and the secrets of the infinite mind.”

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Author:Florence Bascom

“The present rate of progress [in X-ray crystallography] is determined, not so much by the lack of problems to investigate or the limited power of X-ray analysis, as by the restricted number of investigators who have had a training in the technique of the new science, and by the time it naturally takes for its scientific and technical importance to become widely appreciated.”

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Author:William Lawrence Bragg

“The pursuit of science has often been compared to the scaling of mountains, high and not so high. But who amongst us can hope, even in imagination, to scale the Everest and reach its summit when the sky is blue and the air is still, and in the stillness of the air survey the entire Himalayan range in the dazzling white of the snow stretching to infinity? None of us can hope for a comparable vision of nature and of the universe around us. But there is nothing mean or lowly in standing in the valley below and awaiting the sun to rise over Kinchinjunga.”

Source: A Quest for Perspectives: Selected Works of S. Chandrasekhar : with Commentary

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