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“Da Vinci was as great a mechanic and inventor as were Newton and his friends. Yet a glance at his notebooks shows us that what fascinated him about nature was its variety, its infinite adaptability, the fitness and the individuality of all its parts. By contrast what made astronomy a pleasure to Newton was its unity, its singleness, its model of a nature in which the diversified parts were mere disguises for the same blank atoms.”

Source: The Common Sense of Science

“Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.”

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Book:The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh

Source: The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh

“The value of science is not simply what the next model of the iPod you will buy next week, but its real value comes about when it's time to distinguish reality from everything else. And to be scientifically literate is to be trained in what it is, to recognize your own frailty as a data-taking device.”

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Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Science begins with the world we have to live in, accepting its data and trying to explain its laws. From there, it moves toward the imagination: it becomes a mental construct, a model of a possible way of interpreting experience. The further it goes in this direction, the more it tends to speak the language of mathematics, which is really one of the languages of the imagination, along with literature and music. Art, on the other hand, begins with the world we construct, not with the world we see. It starts with the imagination, and then works toward ordinary experience.”

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Author:Northrop Frye

“The standard model gives us an accuracy of ten decimal digits, this is an amazing success that has never been achieved before in science.”

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Author:Nathan Seiberg

“The once-surprising existence of non-Euclidean models of Euclid's first four axioms can be seen as a sort of mathematical joke.”

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Author:John Allen Paulos