Science is simply common sense at its best that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
Thomas Henry Huxley
[1825-95]@
English biologist
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Science is organized knowledge.
Herbert Spencer
[1820-1903]@
English philosopher. Education
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Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
George Santayana
[1863-1952]@
US (Spanish-born) philosopher and writer. The Life of Reason
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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.
Jules Henri Poincare
[1854-1912]@
French mathematician
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Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
Adam Smith
[1723-90]@
Scottish economist. The Wealth of Nations, 1776
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Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.
Bertrand Russell
[1872-1970]@
English philosopher, mathematician
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It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
Alfred North Whitehead
[1861-1947]@
English philosopher and mathematician
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Science is the labor and handicraft of the mind.
Francis Bacon
[1561-1626]@
English essayist, philosopher, statesman
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Science is the literature of truth
Josh Billings (Henry Wheeler Shaw)
[1818-85]@
U. S. humorist
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Science is a series of judgments, revised without ceasing
Pierre Emile Duclaux
[1840-1904]@
French biochemist, bacteriologist
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Science is the desire to know causes
William Hazlitt
[1778-1830]@
English essayist
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Science is an imaginative adventure of the mind seeking truth in a world of mystery.
Sir Cyril Herman Hinshelwood
[1897-1967]@
English chemist. Nobel prize 1956
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Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another
Thomas Hobbes
[1588-1679]@
English philosopher, author
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Science is piecemeal revelation
Oliver Wendell Holmes 1
[1809-94]@
U. S. poet, essayist, physician
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Science is a great game. It is inspiring and refreshing. The playing field is the universe itself
Isidor Isaac Rabi
[1898-1988]@
U. S. physicist. Nobel prize 1944
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In essence, science is a perpetual search for an intelligent and integrated comprehension of the world we live in.
Cornelius Bernardus Van Neil
[1897-1985]@
U. S. microbiologist
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I venture to define science as a series of interconnected concepts and conceptual schemes arising from experiment and observation and fruitful of further experiments and observations. The test of a scientific theory is, I suggest, its fruitfulness.
James Bryant Conant
[1893-1978]@
U. S. Chemist and Educator
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Science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgments of all kinds remain necessary.
Albert Einstein
[1879-1955]@
U. S. physicist, born in Germany
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