Science reckons many prophets, but there is not ev... -Thomas Huxley

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Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah.

Thomas Huxley , Scientist
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Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness....
The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher....
It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may, we can never be certain of making people happy, whereas we can almost always be ce...
Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men....
The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear....
The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect....
The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact....
Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic....
Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother....
The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability....

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Science is an enterprise that should be cherished as an activity of the free human mind. Because it transforms who we are, how we live, and it gives u...
It's actually the minority of religious people who rejects science or feel threatened by it or want to sort of undo or restrict the... where science c...
The center line of science literacy - which not many people tell you, but I feel this strongly, and I will go to my grave making this point - is how y...
The more science I studied, the more I saw that physics becomes metaphysics and numbers become imaginary numbers. The farther you go into science, the...
Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful....
The scientist is also a composer... You could think of science as discovering one particular thing - a supernova or whatever. You could also think of ...
I think people are realizing that engineering and science are extremely good degrees to get and you'll be very highly paid once you've got them....
If spiritual science is to do the same for spirit that natural science has done for nature, it must investigate quite differently from the latter. It ...
Any sufficiently badly-written science is indistinguishable from magic....
Many writers upon the science of political economy have declared that it is the duty of a nation first to encourage the creation of wealth; and second...