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"395 Science Quotes

A good businessman sees where others don't see.
Good Businessman See
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Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control. Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals.

Science Investigates Religion Interprets
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Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science.

Science Time Incorporate Natural
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To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.

Science Higher Been Source
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Two paradoxes are better than one they may even suggest a solution.

Solution Paradoxes One Better
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A comparison between the triplets tentatively deduced by these methods with the changes in amino acid sequence produced by mutation shows a fair measure of agreement.

Amino Acid Mutation Methods
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Almost all aspects of life are engineered at the molecular level, and without understanding molecules we can only have a very sketchy understanding of life itself.
Aspect Molecules Life Sketchy
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Altering a gene in the gene line to produce improved offspring is likely to be very difficult because of the danger of unwanted side effects. It would also raise obvious ethical problems.

Gene Offspring Effect Obvious
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Biologists must constantly keep in mind that what they see was not designed, but rather evolved.

Biologists Constantly Designed Evolved
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Chance is the only source of true novelty.

Chance Novelty Source Only
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I also suspect that many workers in this field [molecular biology] and related fields have been strongly motivated by the desire, rarely actually expressed, to refute vitalism.

Motivated Expressed Vitalism Refute
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In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy and especially dislike reading experimental papers. He (René Thom) seemed to have very strong biological intuitions but unfortunately of negative sign.

Intellectually Strong Biology Lazy
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Only time and money stand between us and knowing the composition of every gene in the human genome.
Gene Composition Human Genome
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Protein synthesis is a central problem for the whole of biology, and that it is in all probability closely related to gene action.

Protein Biology Gene Probability
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The layman is delighted to learn that after all, in spite of science being so impossibly difficult to understand, Scientists Are Human!

Layman Scientist Human Science
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The ultimate aim of the modern movement in biology is in fact to explain all biology in terms of physics and chemistry.

Biology Physics Chemistry Fact
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There is no form of prose more difficult to understand and more tedious to read than the average scientific paper.

Paper Tedious Difficult Form
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Trying to determine the structure of a protein by UV spectroscopy was like trying to determine the structure of a piano by listening to the sound it made while being dropped down a flight of stairs.

Structure Piano Flight Stair
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What is found in biology is mechanisms, mechanisms built with chemical components and that are often modified by other, later, mechanisms added to the earlier ones.

Mechanism Chemical Modified Biology
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And now the announcement of Watson and Crick about DNA. This is for me the real proof of the existence of God.
DNA Proof God Exxstence
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While Occam’s razor is a useful tool in the physical sciences, it can be a very dangerous implement in biology. It is thus very rash to use simplicity and elegance as a guide in biological research.

Physical Dangerous Biology Simplicity
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While DNA could be claimed to be both simple and elegant, it must be remembered that DNA almost certainly originated fairly close to the origin of life when things were necessarily simple or they would not have got going.

Life Elegant DNA Origin
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If Christian scientists had more science and doctors more Christianity, it wouldn't make any difference which you called in - if you had a good nurse.
Christain Science Good Nurse
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If you are in a spaceship that is traveling at the speed of light, and you turn on the headlights, does anything happen?

Light Spaceship Speed Traveling
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When I die, I'm leaving my body to science fiction

Body Die Fiction Leaving
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What's another word for Thesaurus?

Another Thesaurus Word
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I have an existential map. It has 'You are here' written all over it.

Existential Here Map Over
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All research in the cultural sciences in an age of specialization, once it is oriented towards a given subject matter through particular settings of problems and has established its methodological principles, will consider the analysis of the data as an end in itself.

Age Analysis Consider Cultural
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The difference between science and the arts is not that they are different sides of the same coin even, or even different parts of the same continuum, but rather, they are manifestations of the same thing. The arts and sciences are avatars of human creativity.

Between Coin Continuum Creativity
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I think science fiction helps us think about possibilities, to speculate - it helps us look at our society from a different perspective. It lets us look at our mores, using science as the backdrop, as the game changer.

About Backdrop Different Different Perspective
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We look at science as something very elite, which only a few people can learn. That's just not true. You just have to start early and give kids a foundation. Kids live up, or down, to expectations.

Down Early Elite Expectations
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I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
Been Have More Interested
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Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient.

Chamber Common First-Rate Furniture
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Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

Breeds Father Ignorance Knowledge
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There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

Begets Fact Former Ignorance
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All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.

Determine Future Ground Hierarchy
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Any sufficiently badly-written science is indistinguishable from magic.

Any Magic Science Sufficiently
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English is necessary as at present original works of science are in English. I believe that in two decades times original works of science will start coming out in our languages. Then we can move over like the Japanese.

Believe Coming Decades English
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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.

Clusters Else Mass Milky
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If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

Advice Again Beginning Follow
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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.

Many Must Numbers Say
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Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.

Make Measurable
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In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

Authority Humble Individual Questions
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I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.

Begin Demonstrations Discussion Experiments
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The problem here is that there will always be some uncertainty about how quickly Saddam can acquire nuclear weapons. But we don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.

About Acquire Always Cloud
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There's absolutely no reason at all that physicians, scientists, shouldn't be involved in things that affect all of us.

Absolutely Affect Involved Physicians
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In fact, I think when we carry out a complete analysis of time, I think what we're going to discover is that like matter, time is composed of elemental, discrete types.

Analysis Carry Complete Composed
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The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.

Complexity Does Growing Imply
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The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants.
Body Cells Community Inhabitants
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I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.

Amazed Among Capability College
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