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"395 Science Quotes

For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study.

Astronomer Careful Celestial Compose
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The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it.
Purpose Science Useful World
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First of all, we must note that the universe is spherical.

First First Of All Must Note
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The earth also is spherical, since it presses upon its center from every direction.

Also Center Direction Earth
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Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.

Ad Came Earth First
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Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10.

Far Little Mastered Much
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People love conspiracy theories.
Conspiracy Love People Theories
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The earth together with its surrounding waters must in fact have such a shape as its shadow reveals, for it eclipses the moon with the arc of a perfect circle.

Arc Circle Earth Fact
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I shall now recall to mind that the motion of the heavenly bodies is circular, since the motion appropriate to a sphere is rotation in a circle.

Appropriate Bodies Circle Circular
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The massive bulk of the earth does indeed shrink to insignificance in comparison with the size of the heavens.

Bulk Comparison Does Earth
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We regard it as a certainty that the earth, enclosed between poles, is bounded by a spherical surface.

Between Certainty Earth Poles
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At rest, however, in the middle of everything is the sun.

Everything However Middle Rest
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If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet.
Mechanics Profoundly Quantum QuantumMechanics
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Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.

BeTrue Crazy Enough Theory
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Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.

Bears Change Deep Difficulty
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When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images.

Atoms Concerned Creating Describing
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In so many and such important ways, then, do the planets bear witness to the earth's mobility.

Bear Earth Important Many
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Every description of natural processes must be based on ideas which have been introduced and defined by the classical theory.

Based Been Classical Defined
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Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.
Action Always Both Edge
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Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.

Equipped Five sense Universe Adventure
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Science is the one human activity that is truly progressive. The body of positive knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation.

Science Human activity Progressive Body
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The universe is unfolding as it should.
The universe Unfolding
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Astronomy is something like the ministry. No one should go into it without a call. I got that unmistakable call, and I know that even if I were second-rate or third-rate, it was astronomy that mattered.

Astronomy Ministry Go Without call
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The great spirals, with their enormous radial velocities and insensible proper motions, apparently lie outside our Solar system.

Great spiral Radial velocities Motion
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Robotics are beginning to cross that line from absolutely primitive motion to motion that resembles animal or human behavior.

Absolutely Animal Beginning Behavior
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In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days.
Been Continue Days Heroic
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The history of science is rich in example of the fruitfulness of bringing two sets of techniques, two sets of ideas, developed in separate contexts for the pursuit of new truth, into touch with one another.

Another Bringing Developed Example
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Scientists are not delinquents. Our work has changed the conditions in which men live, but the use made of these changes is the problem of governments, not of scientists.

Changed Changes Conditions Governments
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As you get older, you get more... genealogical.

Get More Older You
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Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.
Beautiful Everything Science Very
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My intent was to carry out my duty as a doctor, to end their suffering. Unfortunately, that entailed, in their cases, ending of the life.

Carry Cases Doctor Duty
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My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world.

Feeling Science fiction Connected Real world
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If a projectile were deprived of the force of gravity, it would not be deflected toward the earth but would go off in a straight line into the heavens and do so with uniform motion, provided that the resistance of the air were removed.

Air Deprived Earth Force
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If anyone offers conjectures about the truth of things from the mere possibility of hypotheses, I do not see by what stipulation anything certain can be determined in any science, since one or another set of hypotheses may always be devised which will appear to supply new difficulties.

About Always Another Any
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If the experiments which I urge be defective, it cannot be difficult to show the defects; but if valid, then by proving the theory, they must render all objections invalid.

Cannot Defects Difficult Experiments
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In experimental philosophy, we are to look upon propositions inferred by general induction from phenomena as accurately or very nearly true, notwithstanding any contrary hypotheses that may be imagined, till such time as other phenomena occur by which they may either be made more accurate or liable to exceptions.

Accurate Accurately Any Contrary
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In the beginning of the year 1665, I found the method of approximating series and the rule for reducing any dignity of any binomial into such a series.

Any Beginning Dignity Found
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Infinites, when considered absolutely without any restriction or limitation, are neither equal nor unequal, nor have any certain proportion one to another, and therefore, the principle that all infinites are equal is a precarious one.

Absolutely Another Any Certain
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It may be that there is no such thing as an equable motion, whereby time may be accurately measured. All motions may be accelerated or retarded, but the true, or equable, progress of absolute time is liable to no change.

Absolute Accelerate Accurately Change
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Nothing can be divided into more parts than it can possibly be constituted of. But matter (i.e. finite) cannot be constituted of infinite parts.

Cannot Divided Finite Infinite
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Resistance is usually ascribed to bodies at rest, and impulse to those in motion, but motion and rest, as commonly conceived, are only relatively distinguished; nor are those bodies always truly at rest, which commonly are taken to be so.

Always Bodies Commonly Conceived
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The ancients considered mechanics in a twofold respect: as rational, which proceeds accurately by demonstration, and practical. To practical mechanics all the manual arts belong, from which mechanics took its name.

Accurately Ancient Arts Belong
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The best and safest method of philosophizing seems to be first to inquire diligently into the properties of things, and establishing those properties by experiments, and then to proceed more slowly to hypotheses for the explanation of them.

Best Diligently Establishing Experiments
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The description of right lines and circles, upon which geometry is founded, belongs to mechanics. Geometry does not teach us to draw these lines, but requires them to be drawn.

Belongs Circles Description Does
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Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.
Art May Science Systematic
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Good tests kill flawed theories; we remain alive to guess again.

Again Alive Flawed Good
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Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.

Begin Criticism Must Myths
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In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable; and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not speak about reality.

About Does Far Must
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Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.

Appears Intended Neither Nor
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As far as skincare goes, I'm from the school of 'you are what you eat.' I always promote a vegan lifestyle, not just because it's great for our environment and for humanity, but because if you cut out dairy, for example, there's scientific proof that it can actually help your complexion.

Actually Always As Far As Because
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