Science Quotes

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"Science and faith need not be enemies when pursued with honesty."
Henry Fielding
"To have arrived at the edge of uncertainty is progress."
Daniel Defoe
"Science reveals the mysteries of creation."
Eliza Haywood
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"What is the difference between the Earth and the Heavens?"
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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"Science should enlighten, not enslave."
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
"Science, in its endless questioning, mirrors the philosopher's eternal quest for truth."
Eliza Haywood
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"Science is the knowledge of many; opinion is the knowledge of few."
Samuel Johnson
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"The atoms of Democritus and Newton's particles of light are sands upon the Red sea of the Blood of the Almighty."
William Blake
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"Science itself may be rendered subservient to the destruction of human happiness."
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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"Science is the study of nature's secrets."
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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"Science unveils the hidden mechanisms of existence."
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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"I am not of the opinion to forbid the drinking of a man's own urine; nature is not so unwise as we are."
Jonathan Swift
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"One should as soon expect to hear the cracking of the pistol in the discharge of its contents."
Jonathan Swift
"Science unlocks the mysteries that superstition obscures."
Aphra Behn
"Science is the torch we carry against the darkness of ignorance."
Aphra Behn
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"How wonderfully are we made; and how miraculous are the operations of the several parts of our bodies!"
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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"Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed."
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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"Science is the lamp that dispels the darkness of ignorance."
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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"The Atoms of Democritus And Newtons Particles of light Are sands upon the Red sea shore, Where Israels tents do shine so bright."
William Blake
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"Science reveals the mechanisms of creation; wonder reveals its meaning."
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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"Science and imagination together reveal the full extent of reality."
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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"A blind man in the dark room looking for a black cat—that is science."
Jonathan Swift
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"Surely it is madness to trust the uncontrolled direction of Nature's phenomena to human beings."
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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"One man's life or death were but a small price to pay for the acquirement of the knowledge which I sought."
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
"The mysteries science cannot answer are often the truest questions."
Christina Rossetti
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"One principal cause of the miseries of mankind is that natural historians have published a thousand errors, because they were not sufficiently careful and skeptical."
Samuel Johnson
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"In matters of scientific research, patience and humility are the first virtues."
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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"Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense."
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"Science reveals the mechanisms of creation but not the meaning of life."
Christina Rossetti
"The science of life is learning what to do with life."
Robert Browning