#science

Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

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With acknowledgement of residues, we can be more easily prepared to grant the unit of science, the overlapping of disciplines, and the total coherence of all facts. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

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Science is nothing but perception. ↗

— Plato

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Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

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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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For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

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