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“The increase of scientific knowledge lies not only in the occasional milestones of science, but in the efforts of the very large body of men who with love and devotion observe and study nature.”

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Author:Polykarp Kusch

“Indeed science alone may perhaps be sterile when pursued without an understanding of the world in which scientific knowledge is created and in which the fruits of science are used.”

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Author:Polykarp Kusch

“At any rate, girls are differently situated. Having no need of deep scientific knowledge, their education is confined more to the ordinary things of the world, the study of the fine arts, and of the manners and dispositions of people.”

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Book:A Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia: From Melbourne to the Gulf of Carpentaria

Source: A Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia: From Melbourne to the Gulf of Carpentaria

“And, that's what I truly believe that we're doing when we're advancing scientific knowledge is we're someday making the world better. Not only for our children, but for all people after that.”

People World Believe Children Our Children Someday Advancing Scientific Knowledge

Author:Duane G. Carey

“Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge: the serenity to accept the things we cannot predict, the courage to predict the things we can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”

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Book:The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't

Source: The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't

“All kinds of mysterious phenomena exist in this world, but answers to most of them have come with advances in scientific knowledge. Love is the sole holdout-nothing can explain it. A Chinese writer by the name of Ah Cheng wrote that love is just a chemical reaction, an unconventional point of view that seemed quite fresh at the time. But if love can be controlled and initiated by means of chemistry, then novelists would be out of a job. So while he may have had his finger on the truth, I'll remain a member of the loyal opposition.”

Source: Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out: A Novel

“What our species needs, above all else, is a generally accepted ethical system that is compatible with the scientific knowledge we now possess.”

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Book:Dilthey's Dream: Essays on Human Nature and Culture

Source: Dilthey's Dream: Essays on Human Nature and Culture

“As for Lindbergh, another eminent servant of science, all he proved by his gaudy flight across the Atlantic was that God takes care of those who have been so fortunate as to come into the world foolish. Expressing skepticism that adventure does not necessarily contribute to scientific knowledge.”

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Author:H. L. Mencken

“Reliable scientific knowledge is value free and has no moral or ethical value. Science tells us how the world is. ... Dangers and ethical issue arise only when science is applied as technology.”

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Author:Lewis Wolpert

“It is rather astonishing how little practical value scientific knowledge has for ordinary men, how dull and commonplace such of it as has value is, and how its value seems almost to vary inversely to its reputed utility.”

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Book:A Mathematician's Apology

Source: A Mathematician's Apology

“Even scientific knowledge, if there is anything to it, is not a random observation of random objects; for the critical objectivity of significant knowledge is attained as a practice only philosophically in inner action.”

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Author:Karl Jaspers

“Scientific knowledge is an enabling power to do either good or bad — but it does not carry instructions on how to use it.”

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Book:The Quotable Feynman

Source: The Quotable Feynman

“If the world kept a journal, many of the entries would be conversations concerning the advancement of scientific knowledge and its importance to humanity. I offer the following conversation as an added entry: "And what is as important as knowledge?" asked the mind. "Caring," answered the heart.”

Ifs World Mind Heart Important Would Be Humanity Offers Conversation Importance Following Caring Journal Advancement Entry Scientific Knowledge

Author:Flavia Weedn

“The stumbling way in which even the ablest of the scientists in every generation have had to fight through thickets of erroneous observations, misleading generalizations, inadequate formulation, and unconscious prejudice is rarely appreciated by those who obtain their scientific knowledge from textbooks.”

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Author:James Bryant Conant

“We may take it to be the accepted idea that the Mosaic books were not handed down to us for our instruction in scientific knowledge, and that it is our duty to ground our scientific beliefs upon observation and inference, unmixed with considerations of a different order.”

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Book:Natural Science and Religion

Source: Natural Science and Religion

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