Importance Of Science Quotes

• Influenced by him, and probably even more so by my brother Theodore a year older than me, I soon became interested in biology and developed a respect for the importance of science and the scientific method.

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  Frederick Sanger

  Respect   Brother   Years  

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• In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.

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  Carl Sagan

  Change   Learning   Humility  

  Keynote address at CSICOP conference in 1987. "Do Science and the Bible Conflict?" Book by Judson Poling, p. 30, 2003.

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• The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.

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  William Lawrence Bragg

  Knowledge   Learning   Science  

  5124

• It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.

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  Jacob Bronowski

  Inspirational   Education   Teacher  

  "'The Ascent of Man' ('Knowledge or Certainty')". Documentary TV Mini-Series, Episode 11, 1973.

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• I'm basically a dinosaur. I don't use e-mail. But I do recognize the importance of science and the resulting possibilities.

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  Bernard Marcus

  Use   Dinosaurs   Mail  

  2049

• I'm big on the importance of science, particularly right now at this point in time when there's sort of a systematic rejection of science by a lot of people in America.

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  Seth MacFarlane

  America   People   Rejection  

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• In science it often happens that scientists say, "You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken..."

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  Carl Sagan

  Change   Science   Theoretical Physics  

  Keynote address at CSICOP conference, 1987.

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• I shall devote only a few lines to the expression of my belief in the importance of science … it is by this daily striving after knowledge that man has raised himself to the unique position he occupies on earth, and that his power and well-being have continually increased.

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  Marie Curie

  Knowledge   Science   Unique  

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• Agency by agency, we frequently have lost a bit of ground, at least to inflation-but had it not been for the efforts we've made to educate people about the importance of science, technology and advanced education, those predictions very well might have come true.

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  Charles M. Vest

  Education   Technology   Agency  

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