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I should like to say that I am as proud of my Chinese heritage and background as I am devoted to modern science, a part of human civilization of Western origin, to which I have dedicated and I shall continue to dedicate my work.


Chen Ning Yang


#background #chinese #civilization #continue #dedicate

Modern science is fast-moving, and no laboratory can exist for long with a program based on old facilities. Innovation and renewal are required to keep a laboratory on the frontiers of science.


Burton Richter


#exist #facilities #frontiers #innovation #keep

Scientific men can hardly escape the charge of ignorance with regard to the precise effect of the impact of modern science upon the mode of living of the people and upon their civilisation.


Frederick Soddy


#civilisation #effect #escape #hardly #ignorance

What we must understand is that the industries, processes, and inventions created by modern science can be used either to subjugate or liberate. The choice is up to us.


Henry A. Wallace


#created #either #industries #inventions #liberate

To attempt this would be like seeing without eyes or directing the gaze of knowledge behind one's own eye. Modern science can acknowledge no other than this epistemological stand-point.


Wilhelm Dilthey


#attempt #behind #directing #epistemological #eye

Modern science, then, so far from being an enemy of romance, is seen on every hand to be its sympathetic and resourceful friend, its swift and irresistible helper in its serious need, and an indulgent minister to its lighter fancies.


Richard Le Gallienne


#enemy #every #fancies #far #friend

Modern science cannot explain why the laws of physics are exactly balanced for animal life to exist.


Robert Lanza


#animal life #balanced #cannot #exactly #exist

The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.


Walter Lippmann


#atoms #belief #contingent #forces #heart

However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson; nothing is impossible.


Lewis Mumford


#far #however #impossible #inherent #least

The position of modern science, as far as an ignorant man of letters can understand it, seems not a step in advance of that held by Huxley and Romanes in the last century.


Albert J. Nock


#as far as #century #far #held #huxley






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