Science Quotes

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"Science has opened doors that philosophy had merely imagined."
Edgar Allan Poe
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"Science explores the exterior; poetry explores the interior of existence."
Edgar Allan Poe
"The greatest discoveries often come from simple observation of nature."
James Fenimore Cooper
"Science is the systematic effort to discover the laws of nature."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Science has not yet taught us that it is impossible to dream."
Edgar Allan Poe
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"The patient scientist knows nature will not be rushed."
Emily Dickinson
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"The power of the mind over the body, when properly understood, is a science and an art."
Washington Irving
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"Science seeks to explain the universe; wisdom seeks to understand it."
Herman Melville
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"Science advances by daring to ask forbidden questions."
Herman Melville
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"Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence."
Edgar Allan Poe
"The creation of science is the highest human calling."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Science is the pursuit of truth."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
"Science reveals mysteries."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
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"Science cannot answer the deepest questions of life."
François Mauriac
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"The greatest discoveries often come from observing the ordinary closely."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"Science is the study of those judgments concerning which universal agreement is possible."
Anatole France
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"Science in the broadest sense is the endeavor to find rules of universal application."
Anatole France
"Science is the religion of those who think they don't believe in anything."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
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"Science describes how the world works; art explores why it matters."
François Mauriac
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"To think is to practice brain chemistry."
Herman Melville
"Science attempts to explain what cannot be explained."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
"Science cannot answer the questions that matter."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
"Science seeks to understand the universe."
Romain Rolland
"Science reveals divine order."
Romain Rolland
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"Science is the domain of truth, and art is the domain of beauty."
Anatole France
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"The scientist who loses his wonder is lost."
Anatole France
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"Science is the pursuit of truth through rigorous observation and reason"
Henry James
"Science without conscience is the ruin of the soul."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
"Science without art is sterile; art without science is mere sentiment."
Romain Rolland