Science Quotes

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"Life is a search for truth. Science is a way to search for truth."
Linus Pauling
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"I think that the world will ultimately unite and that it will be through science."
Linus Pauling
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"Every aspect of the world today even politics and sport is influenced by chemistry."
Linus Pauling
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"I have made my life's work the search for the chemical basis of the mind."
Linus Pauling
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"The satisfaction of discovery is the greatest reward in science."
Linus Pauling
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"Science gives us the tools to understand our world and ourselves."
Linus Pauling
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"The chemical bond is one of the most important concepts in all of science."
Linus Pauling
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"I have dedicated my life to understanding the fundamental structure of matter."
Linus Pauling
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"The electron is one of the most fundamental particles of creation."
Linus Pauling
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"I am convinced that the future will see chemistry as the central science."
Linus Pauling
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"The most important element in any discovery is the human mind."
Linus Pauling
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"To understand chemistry is to understand the basis of all life."
Linus Pauling
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"The study of molecular structure reveals the harmony of creation."
Linus Pauling
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"To be a scientist is to be a servant of truth and knowledge."
Linus Pauling
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"To understand the electron is to begin to understand existence itself."
Linus Pauling
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"I am devoted to the belief that science transcends all boundaries."
Linus Pauling
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"The wonder of discovery never grows old no matter how long one lives."
Linus Pauling
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"I have devoted my life to the belief that science is the path to truth."
Linus Pauling
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"What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning."
Werner Heisenberg
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"The atoms or elementary particles themselves are not real; they form a world of potentialities or possibilities rather than one of things or facts."
Werner Heisenberg
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"Quantum mechanics makes absolutely no sense."
Werner Heisenberg
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"Anybody who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it."
Werner Heisenberg
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"Nature isn't classical, dammit, if you want to make a simulation of nature, you'd better make it quantum mechanical."
Werner Heisenberg
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"The more success the quantum theory has, the sillier it looks."
Werner Heisenberg
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"There is no reason to assume that the beginning of the world has to be understandable to us even if all seemingly separate scientific questions can be answered."
Werner Heisenberg
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"Physics is really nothing more than a system of concepts by which we can describe the facts of nature and the interrelations of these facts."
Werner Heisenberg
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"I am now convinced that theoretical physics is actual philosophy."
Werner Heisenberg
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"Uncertainty is inherent in the nature of the universe itself."
Werner Heisenberg
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"The idea of objective reality has evaporated not only from quantum mechanics but also from relativity theory."
Werner Heisenberg
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"The atoms or elementary particles themselves are not real; they form a world of potentialities."
Werner Heisenberg