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“The number of such as live without the ardour of inquiry is very small, though many content themselves with cheap amusements, and waste their lives in researches of no importance.”

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Book:The Life and Writings of Samuel Johnson...

Source: The Life and Writings of Samuel Johnson...

“I shall devote only a few lines to the expression of my belief in the importance of science it is by this daily striving after knowledge that man has raised himself to the unique position he occupies on earth, and that his power and well-being have continually increased.”

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Author:Marie Curie

“To appear to be on the inside and know more than others about what is going on is a great temptation for most people. It is a rare person who is willing to seem to know less than he does ... Somehow, people seem to feel that it is belittling to their importance not to know more than other people.”

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Author:Eleanor Roosevelt

“We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.”

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Author:Clarence Darrow

“[Question: What do you think was the most important physics idea to emerge this year?] We won't know for a few years.”

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Author:Stephen Hawking

“When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choice of a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious, from somewhere within ourselves. In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed, I think, by the deep inner needs of our nature.”

“It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of.”

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Book:The substance of man

Source: The substance of man

“One hardly knows where, in the history of science, to look for an important movement that had its effective start in so pure and simple an accident as that which led to the building of the great Washington telescope, and went on to the discovery of the satellites of Mars.”

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Book:The reminiscences of an astronomer

Source: The reminiscences of an astronomer

“Gradually, ... the aspect of science as knowledge is being thrust into the background by the aspect of science as the power of manipulating nature. It is because science gives us the power of manipulating nature that it has more social importance than art. Science as the pursuit of truth is the equal, but not the superior, of art. Science as a technique, though it may have little intrinsic value, has a practical importance to which art cannot aspire.”

Source: The Scientific Outlook

“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.”

“The basis of the discovery is imagination, careful reasoning and experimentation where the use of knowledge created by those who came before is an important component.”

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Author:Bengt I. Samuelsson