Quotes Science

sci·ence n.
1 : the state of knowing : knowledge as distinguished from ignorance or misunderstanding
2 a : a department of systematized knowledge as an object of study (the science of theology)
b : something (as a sport or technique) that may be studied or learned like systematized knowledge
Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary

"Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion." -Democritus

"The true science and study of man is man." -W.H. Auden

"To every action there is always opposed and equal reaction." -Isaac Newton

"Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it my seem, uniquely determined by the external world." -Albert Einstein

"Water is the principle, or the element, of all things. All things are water." -Thales of Miletus

"Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards." -Fred Hoyle

"Nothing puzzles me more than time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less as I never thing about them." -Charles Lamb

"Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to antoher." -Plato

"Give me a firm spot on which to stand, and I will move the earth." -Archimedes

"The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them." –Sir William Bragg

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