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“I enjoy, and always have enjoyed, disturbing scientists.”

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John Tuzo Wilson was a renowned geologist known for his contributions to the theory of plate tectonics. Born on October 24, 1908, and passing away on April 15, 1993, his research had a profound impact on the development of geology. more

“The fact that scientists do not consciously practice a formal methodology is very poor evidence that no such methodology exists. It could be said-has been said-that there is a distinctive methodology of science which scientists practice unwittingly, like the chap in Moliere who found that all his life, unknowingly, he had been speaking prose.”

Has Beens Said Facts Science Found Poor Practice Evidence Scientist Prose Formal Distinctive Methodology Chaps

Book:Induction and intuition in scientific thought

Source: Induction and intuition in scientific thought

“The scientist is indistinguishable from the common man in his sense of evidence, except that the scientist is more careful.”

Men Science Common Evidence Scientist Careful Common Man

Book:The Ways of Paradox, and Other Essays

Source: The Ways of Paradox, and Other Essays

“The traditional boundaries between various fields of science are rapidly disappearing and what is more important science does not know any national borders. The scientists of the world are forming an invisible network with a very free flow of scientific information - a freedom accepted by the countries of the world irrespective of political systems or religions. ... Great care must be taken that the scientific network is utilized only for scientific purposes - if it gets involved in political questions it loses its special status and utility as a nonpolitical force for development.”

“There is no area of the world that should not be investigated by scientists. There will always remain some questions that have not been answered. In general, these are the questions that have not yet been posed.”

World Should Science Areas Scientist

Author:Linus Pauling

“Twice in my life I have spent two weary and scientifically profitless years seeking evidence to corroborate dearly loved hypotheses that later proved to be groundless; times such as these are hard for scientists-days of leaden gray skies bringing with them a miserable sense of oppression and inadequacy.”

Years Two Hard Science Sky Evidence Scientist Seeking Oppression Miserable Gray Weary Hypothesis Inadequacy Gray Skies

Book:Advice to a young scientist

Source: Advice to a young scientist

“[May] this civic and social landmark [the Washington, D.C., Jewish Community Center] ... be a constant reminder of the inspiring service that has been rendered to civilization by men and women of the Jewish faith. May [visitors] recall the long array of those who have been eminent in statecraft, in science, in literature, in art, in the professions, in business, in finance, in philanthropy and in the spiritual life of the world.”

“[Scientists] have learned to respect nothing but evidence, and to believe that their highest duty lies in submitting to it however it may jar against their inclinations.”

Believe May Science Lying Duty Highest Evidence Scientist Inclination Jars

Book:The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley

Source: The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley

“Nulla (enim) res tantum ad dicendum proficit, quantum scriptio Nothing so much assists learning as writing down what we wish to remember.”

Writing Remember Science Wish Learning Ads Quantum

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

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