“Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws – a thing which can never be demonstrated.”
— Tryon Edwards
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“Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely.”
— Josef Albers
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“We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.”
— Wernher von Braun
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“Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.”
— Arthur M. Schlesinger
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“The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.”
— Erich Fromm
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“In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them.”
— Thomas Huxley
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“There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick.”
— Robert A. Heinlein
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“I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.”
— George Santayana
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“We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.”
— Woodrow Wilson
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“There are no shortcuts in evolution.”
— Louis D. Brandeis
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“And I have lived since – as you have – in a period of cold war, during which we have ensured by our achievements in the science and technology of destruction that a third act in this tragedy of war will result in the peace of extinction.”
— Lester B. Pearson
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