science – Page 25 – Purpee Quotes

“That science has long been neglected and declining in England, is not an opinion originating with me, but is shared by many, and has been expressed by higher authority than mine.”

— Charles Babbage

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Thence results, for science as well as

Posted on December 11, 2015December 11, 2010 by admin

“Thence results, for science as well as for industry, the necessity of the division and association of labor. I receive and I give – such is human life. Each directs and is directed in his turn.”

— Mikhail Bakunin

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When I find myself in the company

Posted on December 9, 2015December 9, 2010 by admin

“When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.”

— W. H. Auden

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Unlike scientism, science in the True sense

Posted on December 8, 2015December 8, 2010 by admin

“Unlike scientism, science in the true sense of the word is open to unbiased investigation of any existing phenomena.”

— Stanislav Grof

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The folly of mistaking a paradox for

Posted on November 27, 2015November 27, 2010 by admin

“The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.”

— Paul Valery

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