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Science
«Evolutionary biology is now uttering and seeking those forces that link us with all those that have being.»
«To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree.»
«Every scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; next, they say it has been discovered before lastly, they say they always believed it.»
Author: Louis Agassiz
(Geologist, Naturalist, Teacher)
| About:
Science,
Truth
| Keywords:
conflicts, lastly
«If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search.I was a sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety per cent of his labor.»
«False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.»
«If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.»
Author: Thomas Hardy
(Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Physics,
Science
| Keywords:
Galileo, inquisition, inquisitions, the Inquisition, verse
«Gravity is a contributing factor in nearly 73 percent of all accidents involving falling objects.»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
| About:
Science
| Keywords:
accidents, contributed, contributing, factor, factor in, falling, gravity, involving, nearly, objects, percent
«Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms, and the greatest, and best of men is but an aphorism»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Knowledge,
Science
| Keywords:
abstract, aphorism, aphorisms, exclusively, largest, portion, sciences, worthiest