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Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena. (Quote by - Wilhelm Reich)

Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another. (Quote by - Thomas Hobbes)

The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage. (Quote by - Mark Russell)

Whenever science makes a discovery, the devil grabs it while the angels are debating the best way to use it. (Quote by - Alan Valentine)

Anybody who has been seriously engaged is scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.' (Quote by - Max Planck)

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss. (Quote by - Noam Chomsky)

To the natural philosopher, to whom the whole extent of nature belongs, all the individual branches of science constitute the links of an endless chain, from which not one can be detached without destroying the harmony of the whole. (Quote by - Friedrich Karl Ludwig Schoedler)

I got the bill for my surgery. Now I know what those doctors were wearing masks for. (Quote by - James H. Boren)

The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I'm talking about an organic computer - about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor. (Quote by - Alvin Toffler)

Science is a series of judgments, revised without ceasing. (Quote by - Pierre Emile Duclaux)

All our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike--and yet it is the most precious thing we have. (Quote by - Sir Humphrey Davy)

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...' (Quote by - Isaac Asimov)

The essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer. (Quote by - Jacob Bronowski)

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance. (Quote by - Hippocrates)

I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes)

Physics isn't a religion. If it were, we'd have a much easier time raising money. (Quote by - Leon Lederman)

Physics is mathematical not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so little; it is only its mathematical properties that we can discover. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)

If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the art of the soluble. Both are immensely practical-minded affairs. (Quote by - Peter B. Medawar)

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it. (Quote by - Harry Emerson Fosdick)

A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God. (Quote by - Alan Perlis)

The scientist who yields anything to theology, however slight, is yielding to ignorance and false pretenses, and as certainly as if he granted that a horse-hair put into a bottle of water will turn into a snake. (Quote by - H L Mencken)

Science is built up of facts, as a house is built of stones; but an accumulation of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house. (Quote by - Henri Poincare)

Men are probably nearer the central truth in their superstitions than in their science. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)

Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. (Quote by - Wernher Von Braun)

Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it. (Quote by - Edmund Hillary)

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