Science Quotes

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"Science and reason must guide our policies, not ideology."
Diane Ravitch
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"There is no conflict between my science and my beliefs."
Darth Vader
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"Science without humanism is technology without conscience."
Maxine Greene
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"Discovery is in its essence a matter of rearranging or transforming evidence so that one is enabled to go beyond the evidence so assembled to new insights."
Jerome Bruner
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"The true method of knowledge is experiment."
Jerome Bruner
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"Science is the pursuit of truth through observation and reason."
Benjamin Bloom
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"Science without conscience is the ruin of the soul."
Benjamin Bloom
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"The act of discovery is its own form of understanding, far more powerful than passive reception of facts."
Jerome Bruner
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"Children are natural scientists, constantly forming hypotheses and testing them against reality."
Jerome Bruner
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"Knowledge is constructed rather than discovered; it emerges from active engagement with the world."
Jerome Bruner
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"The capacity to use symbols is what fundamentally distinguishes human thought."
Jerome Bruner
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"The structure of knowledge mirrors the structure of how we discover it."
Jerome Bruner
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"Science is built up of facts as a house is built of stones."
Maria Montessori
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"The healthy attitude of science is a constant willingness to abandon a given hypothesis, a given law, even the most fundamental when the evidence is against it."
John Dewey
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"Science seeks to understand nature."
Johann Pestalozzi
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"Observations of children reveal the universal laws of human development."
Maria Montessori
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"The brain is not a single-purpose machine but a tool of extraordinary plasticity and adaptability."
Jerome Bruner
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"The mind is not bound by the physical brain but extends into the tools and technologies it uses."
Jerome Bruner
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"Science and faith need not be enemies."
Friedrich Schleiermacher
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"Science seeks the truth about existence."
Friedrich Schleiermacher
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"The most notable distinction between animals and men is the establishment of a true science by men."
John Dewey
"Science is the systematic study of nature's laws."
John Amos Comenius
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"Science must be united with interpretation to yield genuine understanding"
Friedrich Schleiermacher
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"All things are poison and nothing is without poison; only the dose makes the thing which is not a poison."
Johann Wolfgang Goethe
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"Science is the knowledge of things not previously known."
Friedrich Hegel
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"The advancement of science should always be guided by moral principles and human values."
Johann Pestalozzi
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"Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination."
John Dewey
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"The life of a scientific investigator involves the exercise of both curiosity and the ability to imagine."
John Dewey
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"The test of all knowledge is experiment. Experiment is the sole judge of scientific truth."
John Dewey
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"Scientific method is not just a method used in science. It is a general method of practical problem-solving."
John Dewey