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“The chief end of science is to make things clear, the educative aim is to foster the inquisitive spirit.”

Ends Science Spirit Education Clear Accounts Aim Chiefs Inquisitive

Author:J. Arthur Thomson

“The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography or history or fiction. It seems to me, then, that there can be no separate literature of science.”

Seems Science Literature Fiction Accounts Aim Biographies Silent Spring

Author:Rachel Carson

“I think all countries need to aim to cut the CO2 emissions per person, taking account of externalities like imports and exports.”

Thinking Needs Persons Country Cutting Accounts Aim Emissions Imports Co2 Co2 Emissions Externalities

Author:Martin Rees

“The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.”

Wisdom Science Doors Atheism Limits Accounts Infinite Aim Errors

Book:Plays: The Caucasian chalk circle. The threepenny opera. The trial of Lucullus. The life of Galileo

Source: Plays: The Caucasian chalk circle. The threepenny opera. The trial of Lucullus. The life of Galileo

“To me, science is an expression of the human spirit, which reaches every sphere of human culture. It gives an aim and meaning to existence as well as a knowledge, understanding, love, and admiration for the world. It gives a deeper meaning to morality and another dimension to esthetics.”

Source: A tribute to Professor I.I. Rabi on the occasion of his retirement from Columbia University

“The aim of science is, on the one hand, as complete a comprehension as possible of the connection between perceptible experiences in their totality, and, on the other hand, the achievement of this aim by employing a minimum of primary concepts and relations.”

Hands Science Achievement Concepts Connections Accounts Relation Aim Primaries Minimum Comprehension Totality Employing

Author:Albert Einstein

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

Science Judging Accounts Aim Judgement Recognise

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.”

Science Process Understanding Pure Machines Accounts Aim Medicine Fruit Shy Harvest Pragmatic Applied Science

Author:Lincoln Barnett