Science Quotes

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"Science must serve humanity or it serves nothing."
Shevek
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"My dear Watson, you as a medical man are aware of the different nervous temperaments."
Sherlock Holmes
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"The physicist and the poet seek the same truth"
Shevek
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"Science seeks truth; politics seeks control"
Shevek
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"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data."
Sherlock Holmes
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"I make use of all the facts which are brought to my notice."
Sherlock Holmes
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"What they did to Algernon, they did to me."
Charlie Gordon
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"Algernon showed me that the experiment has limits we cannot control."
Charlie Gordon
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"Science serves humanity or it serves nothing."
Shevek
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"A man of science must question everything."
Dr. John Watson
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"Physics is the most basic science, and it describes the nature of reality itself"
Shevek
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"Physics mirrors the soul of society"
Shevek
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"Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner."
Sherlock Holmes
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"I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data."
Sherlock Holmes
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"Physics is the poetry of reality"
Shevek
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"Science seeks truth; society seeks power"
Shevek
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"Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner."
Sherlock Holmes
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"Physics is not about power; it is about truth"
Shevek
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"The physicist must be free or his work is meaningless"
Shevek
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"Science and reason must prevail over superstition"
Sherlock Holmes
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"The answer lies not in the heavens but in the facts before us"
Sherlock Holmes
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"In mathematics and physics, truth is immutable."
Leigh Teabing
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"Numbers hold the secrets of the universe."
Robert Langdon
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"The mind is the greatest puzzle ever created."
Robert Langdon
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"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data."
Sherlock Holmes
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"My methods are built upon the observation of trifles."
Sherlock Holmes
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"Science serves all or none"
Shevek
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"I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data."
Sherlock Holmes
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"Science knows no frontiers"
Shevek
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"Science without conscience leads to ruin"
Shevek