Science Quotes

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"Human life is but a series of footnotes to endless scientific theories."
Vladimir Nabokov
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"The greatest discoveries come from careful observation of small things."
Vladimir Nabokov
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"Science reveals only what nature wishes to conceal."
Nikolai Gogol
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"Science reveals the mechanisms of nature, but not the meaning of existence."
Maxim Gorky
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"Science advances through the willingness to question what was previously accepted."
Maxim Gorky
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"In science there are no shortcuts to truth."
Ivan Turgenev
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"Science progresses when we question what we assume true."
Ivan Turgenev
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"Science explains how, but never why."
Mikhail Lermontov
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"Science without humanity is the pursuit of knowledge without wisdom."
Nikolai Gogol
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"There is no national science, just as there is no national multiplication table."
Anton Chekhov
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"If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration."
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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"Science seeks truth; philosophy seeks meaning."
Ivan Turgenev
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"Human nature is the only science of universal value."
Leo Tolstoy
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"There is no national science and no national art; science and art are universal."
Anton Chekhov
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"In science there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting."
William Butler Yeats
"Science seeks to understand what is."
Samuel Beckett
"Science and art are not opposites but partners."
Samuel Beckett
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"Science without philosophy is incomplete."
Leo Tolstoy
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"Science has already provided the answers; it is we who have not yet learned to listen."
Anton Chekhov
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"The seeds of great discoveries are often planted by small observations."
Anton Chekhov
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"The power of science is in its method, not in its dogmas."
George Bernard Shaw
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"Science seeks to understand the world."
Thomas Hardy
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"Science is the intellectual property of all mankind."
Leo Tolstoy
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"A man of science must have feelings, or he ceases to be a man."
Thomas Hardy
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"Science reveals the mysteries of creation."
Anne Brontë
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"Science illuminates the path forward."
Anne Brontë
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"The science of life is a life of science."
George Bernard Shaw
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"Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do harm."
George Eliot
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"The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility."
George Eliot
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"Science explains the how but rarely the why."
Thomas Hardy