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"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We
have guided missiles and misguided men." Martin Luther King,
Jr. | 
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"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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What's YOUR favourite quotation?
Do you know any misquotations?
Do you have a correction? 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]
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