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Letter "S" » Science
«The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.»
Author: Claude Levi-Strauss
(Philosopher)
| About:
Mind,
Science,
Solution
| Keywords:
The Right Questions
«The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.»
«The true science and study of man is man.»
«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.»
Author: Stephen Hawking
(Physicist)
| About:
Science
| Keywords:
arbitrary, divinely, divinely inspired, gradual, History of, history of science, inspired, manner, realization, reflect, underlie, underlies, underlying
«the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.»
Author: Peter Ustinov
| About:
Science,
Social service
| Keywords:
alleys, frustrations, social sciences, the Social Sciences
«The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?»
Author: Stephen Hawking
(Physicist)
| About:
Science
| Keywords:
bother, constructing, describe, existing, mathematical, model, usual
«To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Change,
Imagination,
Science
| Keywords:
advance, angle, angles, angling, creative, imagination, Marks, possibilities, problems, questions, raise, regard, requires, science
«The vanity of the sciences. Physical science will not console me for the ignorance of morality in the time of affliction. But the science of ethics will always console me for the ignorance of the physical sciences.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| About:
Ethics,
Ignorance,
Physics,
Science
| Keywords:
affliction, console, physical science, sciences, the sciences
«True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time and society consider most important. Art transmits these truths from the region of perception.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Science
| Keywords:
Human perception, investigated, investigates, investigating, People of, perception, region, region of, transmits, transmitting
«True modernism is freedom of mind, not slavery of taste. It is independence of thought and action, not tutelage under European schoolmasters. It is science but not its wrong application to life.»
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
(Essayist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Freedom,
Science
| Keywords:
application, European, modernism, schoolmasters, tutelage
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