Science Quotes

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"The universe speaks in the language of mathematics to those who listen."
Kurt Gödel
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"Problems are the lifeblood of mathematics."
David Hilbert
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"Every real number can be understood through the structure of mathematics."
David Hilbert
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"The relationship between mathematics and physics is one of the deepest in all of science."
David Hilbert
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"The path of discovery is not always linear, but each experiment brings us closer to truth."
Georg Ohm
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"The relationship between cause and effect is the foundation of all science."
Georg Ohm
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"Doubt is not the enemy of science; it is its best friend."
Georg Ohm
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"Nature's secrets yield to those who approach with humility and rigor."
Georg Ohm
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"In the laboratory of nature, failures are as instructive as successes."
Georg Ohm
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"Nature tests our theories with relentless and absolute precision."
Georg Ohm
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"Mathematics is the poetry of logical ideas."
André-Marie Ampère
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"What appears as chaos in nature is merely complexity we have not yet understood."
André-Marie Ampère
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"The invisible forces that move the visible world are the most important of all discoveries."
André-Marie Ampère
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"In the forces that invisibly bind matter together lies the secret of all creation."
André-Marie Ampère
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"The true science of natural philosophy is to deduce the phenomena of nature from the fewest possible principles."
James Clerk Maxwell
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"I have also a paper afloat, with an electromagnetic theory of light, which, till I am convinced to the contrary, I hold to be great guns."
James Clerk Maxwell
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"Every part of the field containing the dielectric carries stress and is the seat of energy."
James Clerk Maxwell
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"I am trying to show the connection between magnetism and electricity."
James Clerk Maxwell
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"There is a calculus of variations which seems to underlie all phenomena."
James Clerk Maxwell
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"The field itself is the fundamental quantity and the particles are secondary."
James Clerk Maxwell
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"The continuity of the field suggests that action at a distance is impossible."
James Clerk Maxwell
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"The laws of nature are themselves mathematical relationships."
James Clerk Maxwell
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"Nature abhors discontinuity; the field is everywhere continuous."
James Clerk Maxwell
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"Every phenomenon in nature is a mathematical expression waiting to be deciphered."
James Clerk Maxwell
"Science is what you know well enough to teach to a computer. Everything else is art."
Bertrand Russell
"What science cannot tell us, mankind cannot know."
Bertrand Russell
"The method of science depends upon the possibility of distinguishing the true from the false."
Bertrand Russell
"The fundamental principle of science is doubt."
Bertrand Russell
"The value of a scientific principle lies not in its truth, but in its utility."
Bertrand Russell
"Knowledge and power are the only ends of science, and nothing else."
Bertrand Russell