Science Quotes

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"Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing."
Molière
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"Science seeks to explain what art merely suggests."
Stéphane Mallarmé
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"Science demands precision; art demands passion. Both demand truth."
Denis Diderot
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"Every discovery in science begins with a question that challenges conventional wisdom."
Denis Diderot
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"The advancement of science is the advancement of human freedom and dignity."
Denis Diderot
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"Science reveals the mechanisms by which nature accomplishes her designs."
Pierre Corneille
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"Science and art together reveal the full nature of existence."
Pierre Corneille
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"The beginning of all science is the desire to know."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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"Science reveals how the world works; philosophy explores why it matters."
Jean Racine
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"The infinitely little requires an infinite microscope."
Voltaire
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"All bodies together and each body alone tend to move toward the largest body."
Voltaire
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"Science reveals the mysteries of existence"
Arthur Rimbaud
"Science is the poetry of facts, describing the world as it truly is."
Charles Baudelaire
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"Science seeks to understand the mysteries; wisdom knows when to reverence them."
Pierre Corneille
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"Science measures the distances between us while we search for closeness."
Arthur Rimbaud
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"Science seeks to understand; art seeks to transform."
Paul Verlaine
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"The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity."
Voltaire
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"In science, there are no shortcuts to truth."
Voltaire
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"Science seeks to understand the world; art seeks to transform it."
Paul Verlaine
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"Science seeks to understand the natural world."
Victor Leconte de Lisle
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"Science and poetry are not contradictory."
Victor Leconte de Lisle
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"Science is the poetry of nature"
Théophile Gautier
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"Science is the systematic pursuit of truth."
Guy de Maupassant
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"Science is organized knowledge."
Guy de Maupassant
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"Science is organized knowledge."
Alexandre Dumas, fils
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"Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge."
Alexandre Dumas, fils
"Nothing can be created out of nothing; all things arise from something."
Charles Baudelaire
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"Science and poetry are both attempts to explain the ineffable."
Arthur Rimbaud
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"Science and mystery are not opposites but companions."
Arthur Rimbaud
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"Science without art is mechanical; art without science is blind."
Paul Verlaine