Read quote“I owe everything to the mechanical education I received from that American magazine.”
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Scientific inquiry, discovery, evidence, and understanding the natural world.
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Words on Science
Read quote“The opinion which is fated to be ultimately agreed to by all who investigate, is what we mean by the truth, and the object represented in this opinion is the real.”
Read quote“What future do I want to live in: ‘Star Trek’ or ‘Blade Runner’?”
Read quote“I learned about the article only when I was given its reprints.”
Read quote“No es la ciencia quien ha requerido que la identificación tenga un solo medio y logre una sola eficacia, sino la naturaleza.”
Read quote“We feel very proud that in the field of glaucoma therapy, Jamaica has once again shown the way.”
Read quote“I was repeatedly asked how the method of fast multiplication of multiplace numbers was found.”
Read quote“I needed to find capital resources for large-scale experiments and for time to negotiate with the British and Palestinian authorities.”
Read quote“Ma découverte interesse toutes les nations, et c’est pour toutes les nations que je veux faire et mon histoire et mon apologie.”
Read quote“I dedicate today this Institute – not merely a Laboratory but a Temple.”
Read quote“Under present circumstances, and by means of the usual techniques, the difference between the intellectual capacity of Africans and Europeans cannot be scientifically determined.”
Read quote“The research for this project is 100% personal, so is the support for experiments.”
Read quote“Es puntualmente tanta verdad, que la vemos con nuestros ojos los que vivimos en el Pirú; harto más manifiesta por la experiencia, de lo que nos pudiera ser por cualquier razón y demostración filosófica.”
Read quote“I found that my career at Bell Telephone Labs thrived because of the environment, which encouraged cooperative research, offered opportunities for access to sophisticated equipment, and fellowship.”
Read quote“The power of man over animal life, in producing whatever varieties of form he pleases, is enormously great.”
Read quote“If we ignore the facts contained in one part of the world, surely we are hampering scientific advance.”
Read quote“The kind of agreement that is possible in the special branches of physical science, is not possible in the region of general philosophy.”
Read quote“虽曰医家药品，其考释性理，实吾儒格物之学。”
Read quote“Consider what effects which might conceivably have practical bearings, we conceive the object of our conception to have. Then, our conception of these effects is the whole of our conception of the object.”
Read quote“Si aviación viene de ave y el sustento del vuelo de las aves son las alas, el hombre nunca podrá —como tampoco lo podrían hacer los pájaros— conquistar el espacio si solo se sigue ateniendo a esas alas.”
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