#scienc

Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science. ↗

— Claude Bernard

#experimentation #observation #passive #science

In very different ways, the possibility that the universe is teeming with life, and the opposite possibility that we are totally alone, are equally exciting. Either way, the urge to know more about the universe seems to me irresistible, and I cannot imagine that anybody of truly poetic sensibility could disagree. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#extraterrestrial-life #life #science #universe #wonder

Together, "Light and Knowledge" are Inanimate, Intangible, and Inseparable. ↗

— William Bailey

#science #death

There are no shortcuts in evolution. ↗

— Louis D. Brandeis

#evolution #shortcuts

If you don't leave room for the unexpected to express itself in your life, you close yourself off from the possibility of miracles. ↗

— Robert Stikmanz

#humor #science-fiction #death

Man is unique not because he does science, and his is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind. ↗

— Jacob Bronowski

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Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature. ↗

— Jacob Bronowski

#cast #failed #force #looked #magic

That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer. ↗

— Jacob Bronowski

#ask #essence #impertinent #pertinent #question

I have no bad conscience. ↗

— Alois Brunner

#conscience #i

Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#all things #avoid #beyond #conscience #dissipate