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Science & Logic
Science & Logic Quotations
"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life."~ Immanuel Kant
"Why think? Why not try the experiment?" ~ John Hunter
"It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover." ~ Henri Poincare
"As the horse-power of modern automobiles steadily increases, the congestion of traffic steadily lowers the average speed of your car. This is known as Progress." ~ Sydney Harris
"The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact." ~ T H Huxley
"A man with a new idea is a crank until he succeeds." ~ Mark Twain
"An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes, which can be made, in a very narrow field." ~ Niels Henrik David Bohr (1885-1962)
"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use." ~ Galileo Galilei
"If I have seen further than others, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants." ~ Sir Isaac Newton
"It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories instead of theories to suit facts." ~ Sherlock Holmes [Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]
"In Science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs." ~ Sir Francis Darwin, botanist (1848-1925)
"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." ~ Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of Four
"All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Science is built upon facts, as a house is built of stones; but an accumulation of facts is no more a science that a heap of stones is a house." ~ Henri Poincare
"Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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contributions :
please send the words, who said them - with as much detail as you can; why it was said (or not said), when, to whom ... whatever you can. I always acknowledge any help.
Contributions to Quotations:
David Shein [06], Clark Moran, Geoffrey K. Braden [05]