Science Quotes

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"The collision of atoms gives birth to all phenomena."
Leucippus
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"All motion in the universe is without cause or beginning."
Leucippus
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"Necessity governs all motion; chance is merely our ignorance."
Leucippus
L
"All worlds are formed by the same eternal principles."
Leucippus
L
"Atoms swerve and combine according to mechanical necessity."
Leucippus
L
"The microscopic and macroscopic worlds obey identical laws."
Leucippus
L
"All phenomena can be reduced to the motion of atoms."
Leucippus
L
"To study atoms is to read the history of the universe."
Leucippus
L
"Atoms move through the void not by purpose but by necessity."
Leucippus
L
"The collision of atoms is the only true cause."
Leucippus
L
"In studying the nature of atoms, we study the nature of God."
Leucippus
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"The scientist who questions everything is nearest to the truth."
Pindar
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"Science is the poetry of those who seek truth in measurement"
Sappho
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"Just as the human soul, being air, holds us together, so do air and breath encompass the entire cosmos."
Anaximenes
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"All living creatures depend upon air; therefore air is the primary element."
Anaximenes
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"The weight of air, though invisible, sustains all life upon the earth."
Anaximenes
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"The scientist who abandons wonder in pursuit of certainty has lost the way."
Anaximenes
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"The advancement of human knowledge requires the courage to question established beliefs."
Herodotus
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"The universe operates by laws that exist independent of human perception."
Xenophanes
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"All things are bound by invisible threads of cause and effect."
Xenophanes
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"Scientific inquiry is the noblest pursuit of the human mind."
Xenophanes
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"Science seeks to explain the mysteries that poetry seeks to celebrate."
Pindar
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"Everything has a natural explanation; the moon is not a god."
Anaxagoras
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"The infinitely small is as infinite as the infinitely great."
Anaxagoras
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"The sun is not divine, but a burning mass of stone."
Anaxagoras
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"Natural phenomena follow natural laws, not supernatural caprice."
Anaxagoras
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"All substances are present in all bodies."
Anaxagoras
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"To understand the heavens is to understand the earth."
Anaxagoras
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"The smallest substance contains traces of all others."
Anaxagoras
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"The cosmos is rational and therefore knowable."
Anaxagoras