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Historic science · Smartyfair

Ancient wisdom79

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Modern science67

Historic science48

Ancient wisdom79

Individuality21

Individuality35

Modern science67

Historic science48

Historic science

48 quotes

Quotes

Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I: But when the trees bow down their heads The wind is passing by.

Christina Rossetti

Science consists in grouping facts so that general laws or conclusions may be drawn from them.

I feel a genuine interest in the animals themselves, because they are real animals and not caricatures of men.

In fact, how many theorems in geometry which have seemed at first impracticable are in time successfully worked out!

We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire.

I have constantly been impressed with the similarity between the organization and development of plant and human life.

Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.

One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.

Our imagination is struck only by what is great; but the lover of natural philosophy should reflect equally on little things.

Alexander von Humboldt

We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard-loom weaves flowers and leaves.

If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon.

Galileo Galilei

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity.

I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.

L.M. Montgomery

Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you.

Alexander Graham Bell

Nothing is too wonderful to be true.

Michael Faraday

Whosoever studies works of science must, if he wants to find the truth, transform himself into a critic of everything he reads.

A problem thoroughly understood is always fairly simple.

Charles Kettering

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

Benjamin Franklin

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Leonardo da Vinci

I discovered that the pleasure of observing and reasoning was a much higher one than that of skill and sport.

No woman should say, 'I am but a woman!' But a woman! What more can you ask to be?

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

The glittering stars fill us with joy and inspiration, yet in the canopy of heaven all bodies revolve in mathematical figures.

Alexander von Humboldt

It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform.

There is, in nature, perhaps nothing older than motion.

Galileo Galilei

I keep the subject constantly before me, and wait 'till the first dawnings open slowly, by little and little, into a full and clear light.

Chance favors the prepared mind.

Without experiment I am nothing.

Michael Faraday

Truth is sought for its own sake.

Nothing can be more improving to a young naturalist, than a journey in distant countries.

We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.

I am among those who think that science has great beauty.

A book on nature should produce an impression like nature itself.

Alexander von Humboldt

I mean to do what I mean to do.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.

Work. Finish. Publish.

Michael Faraday

I hate a Barnacle as no man ever did before, not even a Sailor in a slow-sailing ship.

You cannot study anything persistently for years without becoming learned.

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.

That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal, as time will show.

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

The great gain would be freedom of thought.

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

No one has a right to speculate without distinct facts.

I love fools' experiments. I am always making them.