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#1

“There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not some day be applied to phenomena of the real world.”
― Nikolai Lobachevsky

tags: abstract, application, mathematics, reality, science, scientist, world

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#2

“Science makes people reach selflessly for truth and objectivity; it teaches people to accept reality, with wonder and admiration, not to mention the deep awe and joy that the natural order of things brings to the true scientist.”
― Lise Meitner

tags: admiration, awe, joy, naturalism, objectivity, relaity, science, scientist, selfless, teach, truth, wonder

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#3

“Science is not a substitute for common sense, but an extension of it.”
― Willard Van Orman Quine, Set Theory and Its Logic

tags: common-sense, extension, science

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#4

“Mathematics, as much as music or any other art, is one of the means by which we rise to a complete self-consciousness. The significance of mathematics resides precisely in the fact that it is an art; by informing us of the nature of our own minds it informs us of much that depends on our minds.”
― Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie

tags: art, fact, math, mathematics, minds, music, nature, science, signifcance

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#5

“It is because I know all that science can bring to the world that I shall continue my efforts to ensure that it contributes to the happiness of all men, whether they be white, black, or yellow, and not to their annihilation in the name of some divine mission or other.”
― Frédéric Joliot-Curie

tags: annihilation, benefit, contribution, divine, divine-mission, effort, happiness, nobel-laureate, peace, science

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#6

“When students cheat on exams it's because our school system values grades more than students value learning.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson

tags: authority, conformity, creativity, education, fear, learning, school, school-reform, science

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#7

“You settle for less, you get less.”
― Brandi L. Bates, Remains To Be Seen

tags: affluence, ambergris-caye, ascension, astrology, atlanta, belize, brandi-bates, brandi-l-bates, california, crime, drama, humanity, illuminati, knowledge, life, life-lessons, locs, love, luxury, matrix, metaphysics, mindfulness, motivation, mystery, natural-hair, nba, ncaa, nelson-mandela, new-thought, nfl, quotes, science, sochi, sports, star-wars, success, suspense, urban-fiction, vegan, winter-olympics, wisdom

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#8

“By death the moon was gathered in Long ago, ah long ago;
Yet still the silver corpse must spin
And with another's light must glow.
Her frozen mountains must forget
Their primal hot volcanic breath,
Doomed to revolve for ages yet,
Void amphitheatres of death.
And all about the cosmic sky,
The black that lies beyond our blue,
Dead stars innumerable lie,
And stars of red and angry hue
Not dead but doomed to die.”
― Julian Huxley, The Captive Shrew and other poems of a Biologist

tags: amphitheatres, corpse, cosmic, death, die, doom, forget, frozen, glow, light, mountains, poetry, science, volcanic

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#9

“It took less than an hour to make the atoms, a few hundred million years to make the stars and planets, but five billion years to make man!”
― George Gamow, The Creation of the Universe

tags: atoms, cosmology, creation, humor, physics, science, stars

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#10

“Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.”
― Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless

tags: humor, novelist, science-fiction

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#11

“..the planet is just too small for these developing countries to repeat the economic growth in the same way that the rich countries have done it in the past. We don't have enough natural resources, we don't have enough atmosphere. Clearly, something has to change.”
― Mario Molina

tags: atmosphere, change, conservation, developing-countries, economic-growth, natural-resources, nobel-laureate, science, sustainability

9 likes

#12

“A billion neutrinos go swimming in heavy water: one gets wet.”
― Michael Kamakana

tags: neutrinos, physics, rare-science-jokes, science, scientific-detection, sub-atomic-particles

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#13

“We know that energy can not be created nor destroyed but can be changed in it's form. If it can not be formed then it can not exist. We may not exist.”
― Mohammed Ali

tags: energy, life, metaphysics, physics, science

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#14

“Writing my own novels in the '90s...I never imagined that in ten years, science and rationality would require explanation and defense in a world rocked and ruled by religious fervor. ”
― Mary Doria Russell

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#15

“What is especially striking and remarkable is that in fundamental physics a beautiful or elegant theory is more likely to be right than a theory that is inelegant.”
― Murray Gell-Mann

tags: aesthetics, beauty, physics, science, theory

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#16

“I am no friend of probability theory, I have hated it from the first moment when our dear friend Max Born gave it birth. For it could be seen how easy and simple it made everything, in principle, everything ironed and the true problems concealed. Everybody must jump on the bandwagon [Ausweg]. And actually not a year passed before it became an official credo, and it still is.”
― Erwin Schrödinger

tags: born, hate, math, mathematics, max-born, probability-theory, science

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#17

“Look to the past to help create the future. Look to science and to poetry. Combine innovation and interpretation. We need the best of both. And it is universities that best provide them.”
― Drew Faust, This Republic of Suffering

tags: science

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#18

“If we wanted to construct a basic philosophical attitude from these scientific utterances of Pauli's, at first we would be inclined to infer from them an extreme rationalism and a fundamentally skeptical point of view. In reality however, behind this outward display of criticism and skepticism lay concealed a deep philosophical interest even in those dark areas of reality of the human mind which elude the grasp of reason. And while the power of fascination emanating from Pauli's analyses of physical problems was admittedly due in some measure to the detailed and penetrating clarity of his formulations, the rest was derived from a constant contact with the field of creative processes, for which no rational formulation as yet exists.”
― Werner Heisenberg, Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science

tags: criticism, fascination, interest, pauli, philosophy, rationalism, reality, reason, science, scientific, skeptical, skepticism, wolfgang-pauli

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#19

“Science is about recognizing patterns. [...] Everything depends on the ground rules of the observer: if someone refuses to look at obvious patterns because they consider a pattern should not be there, then they will see nothing but the reflection of their own prejudices.”
― Christopher Knight & Alan Butler, Who Built the Moon?

tags: bias, science

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#21

“As science advances, there seems to be less and less for God to do. It's a big universe, of course, so He, She, or It, could be profitably employed in many places. But what has clearly been happening is that evolving before our eyes has been a God of the Gaps; that is, whatever it is we cannot explain lately is attributed to God. And then after a while, we explain it, and so that's no longer God's realm.”
― Carl Sagan, The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God

tags: god, science, truth

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#22

“Science is often misrepresented as ‘the body of knowledge acquired by performing replicated controlled experiments in the laboratory.’ Actually, science is something broader: the acquisition of reliable knowledge about the world.”
― Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

tags: epistemology, knowledge, science

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#23

“A mathematician is an individual who calls himself a 'physicist' and does 'physics' and physical experiments with abstract concepts.”
― Bill Gaede, Why God Doesn't Exist

tags: mathematics, peer-review, physics, science, scientific-language

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#24

“However, I don’t understand why people insist on pitting the concepts of evolution and creation against each other. Why can’t they see that spiritualism and science are one? That bodies evolve and souls evolve and the universe is a fluid place that marries them both in a wonderful package called a human being. What’s wrong with that idea?”
― Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain

tags: bodies, creation, evolution, human-being, idea, life, science, souls, spiritualism

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#25

“‎In modern physics, there is no such thing as "nothing." Even in a perfect vacuum, pairs of virtual particles are constantly being created and destroyed. The existence of these particles is no mathematical fiction. Though they cannot be directly observed, the effects they create are quite real. The assumption that they exist leads to predictions that have been confirmed by experiment to a high degree of accuracy.”
― Richard Morris

tags: god-particles, matter-and-anti-matter, particle-physics, philosophy, physics, quantum-physics, science, vacuums

21 likes

#26

“If the brain was simple enough to be understood - we would be too simple to understand it!”
― Minsky M.A.

tags: brain, cognition, science

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#27

“We must convince each generation that they are transient passengers on this planet earth. It does not belong to them. They are not free to doom generations yet unborn. They are not at liberty to erase humanity's past nor dim its future.”
― Bernard Lown

tags: inspirational, science

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#28

“What have you done for science today? Stop doing things for God! He doesn't need anything. Do something for science, for God's sake!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

tags: science

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#29

“One of the great joys of science has to be turning a thought that surfaced one night over a few beers into a full-blown project.”
― Joe Roman

tags: science

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#30

“The more science discovers and the more comprehension it gives us of the mechanisms of existence, the more clearly does the mystery of existence itself stand out.”
― Aldous Huxley

tags: science

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#31

“Whether we like it or not, one day science will take God from us! This will be especially a great destruction for the weak minds!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

tags: science

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