#scienc

The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction. ↗

— Frederik Pohl

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It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover. ↗

— Henri Poincare

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Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house. ↗

— Henri Poincare

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Just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts. ↗

— Henri Poincare

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One would have to have completely forgotten the history of science so as to not remember that the desire to know nature has had the most constant and the happiest influence on the development of mathematics. ↗

— Henri Poincare

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Better to die in the pursuit of civilized values, we believed, than in a flight underground. We were offering a value system couched in the language of science. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

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It is this, at its most basic, that makes science a humane pursuit; it acknowledges the commonality of people's experience. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

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Science gives us a powerful vocabulary, and it is impossible to produce a vocabulary with which one can only say nice things. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

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Science never gives up searching for truth, since it never claims to have achieved it. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

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Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

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