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Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.

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Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.

                     —Bertrand Russell

Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science.

                         —Henri Poincare

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not “Eureka!” (I found it!) but “That’s funny ...”

                            —Isaac Asimov

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

           —Martin Luther King, Jr

I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.

                    —Richard Feynman

There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

                              —Mark Twain

All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

                   —Ernest Rutherford

Science differs from politics or religion, in precisely this one discipline: we agree in advance to simply reject our own findings when they have been shown to be in error.

                          —Robert Pollack

The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired.

              —Stephen W. Hawking

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

                      —Jacob Bronowski

Science is not ... a perfect instrument, but it is a superb and invaluable tool that works harm only when taken as an end in itself.

                                   —Carl Jung

After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are always artists as well.

                        —Albert Einstein

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