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“[At high school in Cape Town] my interests outside my academic work were debating, tennis, and to a lesser extent, acting. I became intensely interested in astronomy and devoured the popular works of astronomers such as Sir Arthur Eddington and Sir James Jeans, from which I learnt that a knowledge of mathematics and physics was essential to the pursuit of astronomy. This increased my fondness for those subjects.”

“The mechanist is intimately convinced that a precise knowledge of the chemical constitution, structure, and properties of the various organelles of a cell will solve biological problems. This will come in a few centuries. For the time being, the biologist has to face such concepts as orienting forces or morphogenetic fields. Owing to the scarcity of chemical data and to the complexity of life, and despite the progresses of biochemistry, the biologist is still threatened with vertigo.”

“I am sorry that the distinguished leader of the Republican Party in the House states that he is not versed in botany and publicly admits that he does not know anything of these terms or what it is all about; but, Mr. Chairman, it is indeed a sad day for the people of this country when we must close the doors of the laboratories doing research work for the people of the United States.”

“We find that one of the most rewarding features of being scientists these days ... is the common bond which the search for truth provides to scholars of many tongues and many heritages. In the long run, that spirit will inevitably have a constructive effect on the benefits which man can derive from knowledge of himself and his environment.”

“If the God of revelation is most appropriately worshipped in the temple of religion, the God of nature may be equally honored in the temple of science. Even from its lofty minarets the philosopher may summon the faithful to prayer, and the priest and sage exchange altars without the compromise of faith or knowledge.”

Ifs May God Science Religion Faith Prayer Knowledge Accounts Philosopher Compromise Faithful Revelations Temples Priests Sage Honored Altars Lofty

Author:David Brewster

“Geology holds the keys of one of the kingdoms of nature; and it cannot be said that a science which extends our Knowledge, and by consequence our Power, over a third part of nature, holds a low place among intellectual employments.”

Said Science Knowledge Keys Intellectual Lows Consequence Thirds Kingdoms Employment Geology

Book:Vindiciæ Geologicæ: The Connexion of Geology with Religion, Explained in an Inaugural Lecture Delivered Before University of Oxford, May 15, 1819, on the Endowment of Readership in Geology

Source: Vindiciæ Geologicæ: The Connexion of Geology with Religion, Explained in an Inaugural Lecture Delivered Before University of Oxford, May 15, 1819, on the Endowment of Readership in Geology

“On examinations: Das Wissen ist der Tad der Forschung. Knowledge is the death of research. Nernst's motto.”

Knowledge Research Motto Examination

Author:Walther Nernst

“A man who is all theory is like "a rudderless ship on a shoreless sea." ... Theories and speculations may be indulged in with safety only as long as they are based on facts that we can go back to at all times and know that we are on solid ground.”

Knows Men May Long Facts Science Knowledge Sea Theory Safety Ships All Time Speculation

Book:Nature's Miracles: Familiar Talks on Science

Source: Nature's Miracles: Familiar Talks on Science

“A scientist strives to understand the work of Nature. But with our insufficient talents as scientists, we do not hit upon the truth all at once. We must content ourselves with tracking it down, enveloped in considerable darkness, which leads us to make new mistakes and errors. By diligent examination, we may at length little by little peel off the thickest layers, but we seldom get the core quite free, so that finally we have to be satisfied with a little incomplete knowledge.”

“All knowledge attains its ethical value and its human significance only by the human sense with which it is employed. Only a good man can be a great physician.”

Knows Men Humans Science Values Knowledge Significance Good Man Ethical Physicians Employed Ethical Values

Author:Hermann Nothnagel

“And this is the ultimate lesson that our knowledge of the mode of transmission of typhus has taught us: Man carries on his skin a parasite, the louse. Civilization rids him of it. Should man regress, should he allow himself to resemble a primitive beast, the louse begins to multiply again and treats man as he deserves, as a brute beast. This conclusion would have endeared itself to the warm heart of Alfred Nobel. My contribution to it makes me feel less unworthy of the honour which you have conferred upon me in his name.”

“As followers of natural science we know nothing of any relation between thoughts and the brain, except as a gross correlation in time and space.”

Thinking Knows Science Natural Space Brain Knowledge Relation Followers Time And Space Gross Natural Science Correlation

Author:Charles Scott Sherrington

“As was the case for Nobel's own invention of dynamite, the uses that are made of increased knowledge can serve both beneficial and potentially harmful ends. Increased knowledge clearly implies increased responsibility. We reject the notion advocated in some quarters that man should stop eating from the tree of knowledge, as if that were humanly possible.”

Ifs Men Should Made Ends Use Science Responsibility Knowledge Cases Tree Eating Notion Invention Rejects Quarters Beneficial Nobel Dynamite Tree Of Knowledge

Author:Nicolaas Bloembergen

“At a given instant everything the surgeon knows suddenly becomes important to the solution of the problem. You can't do it an hour later, or tomorrow. Nor can you go to the library and look it up.”

Knows Looks Important Problem Science Given Hours Knowledge Tomorrow Solutions Library Instant Surgeons

Author:John W. Kirklin

“Each time one of the medicine men dies, it's as if a library has burned down.”

Ifs Men Science Dies Knowledge Medicine Library Burned Extinction

Author:Mark Plotkin

“Either one or the other [analysis or synthesis] may be direct or indirect. The direct procedure is when the point of departure is known-direct synthesis in the elements of geometry. By combining at random simple truths with each other, more complicated ones are deduced from them. This is the method of discovery, the special method of inventions, contrary to popular opinion.”

“Equations seem like treasures, spotted in the rough by some discerning individual, plucked and examined, placed in the grand storehouse of knowledge, passed on from generation to generation. This is so convenient a way to present scientific discovery, and so useful for textbooks, that it can be called the treasure-hunt picture of knowledge.”

Way Seems Science Individual Knowledge Generations Discovery Treasure Rough Equations Hunts Convenient Textbooks Discerning Scientific Discovery Treasure Hunt

Book:The Great Equations: Breakthroughs in Science from Pythagoras to Heisenberg

Source: The Great Equations: Breakthroughs in Science from Pythagoras to Heisenberg

“Frequently, I have been asked if an experiment I have planned is pure or applied science; to me it is more important to know if the experiment will yield new and probably enduring knowledge about nature. If it is likely to yield such knowledge, it is, in my opinion, good fundamental research; and this is more important than whether the motivation is purely aesthetic satisfaction on the part of the experimenter on the one hand or the improvement of the stability of a high-power transistor on the other.”

“From the physician, as emphatically the student of Nature, is expected not only an inquiry into cause, but an investigation of the whole empire of Nature and a determination of the applicability of every species of knowledge to the improvement of his art.”

Art Whole Science Causes Knowledge Students Determination Species Expected Improvement Empires Investigation Physicians Inquiry

Author:John Gorrie

“I do not believe anything very certainly, but everything very probably.”

Knows Believe Science Certain I Believe Knowledge Certainty

Author:Christiaan Huygens

“I do not believe there is anything useful which men can know with exactitude that they cannot know by arithmetic and algebra.”

Knows Men Believe Science Knowledge Arithmetic Algebra Exactitude

Author:Nicolas Malebranche

“If physicists could not quote in the text, they would not feel that much was lost with respect to advancement of knowledge of the natural world. If historians could not quote, they would deem it a disastrous impediment to the communication of knowledge about the past. A luxury for physicists, quotation is a necessity for historians, indispensable to historiography.”

Ifs World Feels Past Science Lost Natural Knowledge Communication Luxury Historian Quotations Indispensable Physicist Advancement Natural World Impediments Historiography

Author:J. H. Hexter

People Ifs Wells Wisdom Would Be Science Knowledge Medicine Protection Being The Best Physicians

Author:Rudolf Virchow

“If the question were, "What ought to be the next objective in science?" my answer would be the teaching of science to the young, so that when the whole population grew up there would be a far more general background of common sense, based on a knowledge of the real meaning of the scientific method of discovering truth.”

Ifs Real Whole Would Be Young Science Next Answers Common Knowledge Teaching Grew Ought Grew Up Accounts Method Population Backgrounds Objectives Common Sense Discovering Scientific Method

Author:Elihu Thomson

“If we would serve science, we must extend her limits, not only as far as our own knowledge is concerned, but in the estimation of others.”

Ifs Knows Science Knowledge Limits Concerned Accounts Estimation

Book:Cellular Pathology as based upon physiological and pathological histology. Twenty lectures delivered in ... 1858. Translated from the second edition of the original by F. Chance. With notes and numerous emendations principally from MS. notes of the author, and illustrated by ... engravings on wood.

Source: Cellular Pathology as based upon physiological and pathological histology. Twenty lectures delivered in ... 1858. Translated from the second edition of the original by F. Chance. With notes and numerous emendations principally from MS. notes of the author, and illustrated by ... engravings on wood.

“In an examination those who do not wish to know ask questions of those who cannot tell.”

Knows Science Asks Wish Knowledge Examination

Book:Laughter from a Cloud

Source: Laughter from a Cloud

“In order to survive, an animal must be born into a favoring or at least tolerant environment. Similarly, in order to achieve preservation and recognition, a specimen of fossil man must be discovered in intelligence, attested by scientific knowledge, and interpreted by evolutionary experience. These rigorous prerequisites have undoubtedly caused many still-births in human palaeontology and are partly responsible for the high infant mortality of discoveries of geologically ancient man.”

“In the final, the positive, state, the mind has given over the vain search after absolute notions, the origin and destination of the universe, and the causes of phenomena, and applies itself to the study of their laws - that is, their invariable relations of succession and resemblance. Reasoning and observation, duly combined, are the means of this knowledge. What is now understood when we speak of an explanation of facts is simply the establishment of a connection between single phenomena and some general facts.”

“In the natural sciences, and particularly in chemistry, generalities must come after the detailed knowledge of each fact and not before it.”

Knows Facts Science Natural Knowledge Chemistry Natural Science Generalities

Author:Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac

“In vertebrate paleontology, increasing knowledge leads to triumphant loss of clarity.”

Knows Science Loss Knowledge Clarity Triumphant Paleontology Vertebrates Increasing Knowledge

Author:Alfred Romer

“Increased knowledge of heredity means increased power of control over the living thing, and as we come to understand more and more the architecture of the plant or animal we realize what can and what cannot be done towards modification or improvement.”

Mean Done Science Understanding Realizing Animal Knowledge Plant Architecture Improvement Living Things Heredity Modification

Author:Reginald Punnett

“Increasing knowledge lessens the sphere of the supernatural.”

Knows Science Knowledge Spheres Increasing Knowledge

Book:The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas

Source: The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas

“Isolated facts and experiments have in themselves no value, however great their number may be. They only become valuable in a theoretical or practical point of view when they make us acquainted with the law of a series of uniformly recurring phenomena, or, it may be, only give a negative result showing an incompleteness in our knowledge of such a law, till then held to be perfect.”

Source: Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays

“It is hard to hide our genes completely. However devoted someone may be to the privacy of his genotype, others with enough curiosity and knowledge can draw conclusions from the phenotype he presents and from the traits of his relatives.”

May Hard Enough Science Knowledge Draws Curiosity Conclusion Privacy Genes Traits Devoted

Book:The Lives to Come

Source: The Lives to Come

“It is the desire for explanations that are at once systematic and controllable by factual evidence that generates science; and it is the organization and classification of knowledge on the basis of explanatory principles that is the distinctive goal of the sciences.”

Science Desire Goal Principles Knowledge Evidence Organization Accounts Bases Explanation Systematic Distinctive Factual Classification

Author:Ernest Nagel

“It might be said that all knowledge is linked to the essential forms of cruelty.”

Knows Said Might Form Science Knowledge Essentials Cruelty Linked

Book:Maladie Mentale Et Psychologie

Source: Maladie Mentale Et Psychologie

“It will be contributing to bring forward the moment in which, seeing clearer into the nature of things, and having learnt to distinguish real knowledge from what has only the appearance of it, we shall be led to seek for exactness in every thing.”

Knows Real Moments Science Knowledge Seeing Appearance Contributing Exactness Real Knowledge

Author:Jean-Andre Deluc

“Knowledge comes by taking things apart, analysis. But wisdom comes by putting things together.”

Wisdom Together Science Knowledge Analysis

Author:John Alexander Morrison

“Knowledge of Nature is an account at bank, where each dividend is added to the principal and the interest is ever compounded; and hence it is that human progress, founded on natural knowledge, advances with ever increasing speed.”

Knows Humans Science Interest Natural Knowledge Progress Accounts Speed Principal Dividends Human Progress

Book:Presidential Address by Grove Karl Gilbert: With Constitution and Standing Rules, Abstracts of Minutes and Lists of Officers and Members, 1895

Source: Presidential Address by Grove Karl Gilbert: With Constitution and Standing Rules, Abstracts of Minutes and Lists of Officers and Members, 1895

“Measurement has too often been the leitmotif of many investigations rather than the experimental examination of hypotheses. Mounds of data are collected, which are statistically decorous and methodologically unimpeachable, but conclusions are often trivial and rarely useful in decision making. This results from an overly rigorous control of an insignificant variable and a widespread deficiency in the framing of pertinent questions. Investigators seem to have settled for what is measurable instead of measuring what they would really like to know.”