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A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it. Albert Einstein  The scientific theory I like the best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline baggage. Max Born  The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them. Sir William Bragg  We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin. Charles Darwin  The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. Albert Einstein  Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. Carl Sagan  Art is meant to upset people, science reassures them. Georges Braque  Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition. Adam Smith  Charles Sanders Pierce 
There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be. 
In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs. Francis Darwin  Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. John Dewey  I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it. Harry Emerson Fosdick  The great tragedy of science -- the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. Thomas Huxley  There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere. Isaac Asimov  |