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“Ask a scientist a very profound question on his science, and he will be silent. Ask a religious person a very simple question on his religion, and he will be frenzied.”

Persons Science Asks Religious Simple Silence Scientist Silent Profound Simplicity Religious Person

Author:Kedar Joshi

“This ability to incorporate the past gives the sharpest diagnostic tool, if one asks whether a body of knowledge is a science or not. Do present practitioners have to go back to an original work of the past? Or has it been incorporated? ... Science is cumulative, and embodies its past.”

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Author:C.P. Snow

“Every scientific fulfillment raises new questions; it asks to be surpassed and outdated.”

Science Asks Raises Fulfillment Questioning Outdated

Book:On Charisma and Institution Building

Source: On Charisma and Institution Building

“Astronomers are pure of heart and appealingly puerile. They look into the midnight sky and ask big questions, just as we did when we were in college: Who are we? Where do we come from? And why are we standing around outside on the night before finals, do we want to end up making elevator parts for a living like our father or what?”

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Book:The Canon: The Beautiful Basics of Science

Source: The Canon: The Beautiful Basics of Science

“The most famous self-made man in the world today is our own Edison. Talk with Mr. Edison and he will tell you he owes much if not most of his success to omnivorous reading. Forbes is one of his favorite publications. How closely he reads it can be gathered from a letter just received from him in which he asks the editor to forward a long analytical letter to the writer of a series of articles which contained two figures Mr. Edison questions, and he wants to know exactly on what authority or investigation they were based. Both letters were the product of Mr. Edison and were signed by him.”