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• Sabemos que existe un infinito, pero desconocemos su naturaleza. Como sabemos que es falso que los números sean finitos, es por tanto cierto que existe un infinito numérico. Pero no sabemos de qué clase; es falso que sea par, es falso que sea impar; porque la adición de una unidad no cambia su naturaleza; sin embargo, es un número, y todo número es par o impar (esto ciertamente es válido para todo número finito). Así pues, podemos saber perfectamente que existe Dios sin saber lo que es.

  Blaise Pascal

  Change, God, Knowledge

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• Knowledge is like a knife. In the hands of a well-balanced adult it is an instrument for good of inestimable value; but in the hands of a child, an idiot, a criminal, a drunkard or an insane man, it may cause havoc, misery, suffering and crime. Science and religion have this in common, that their noble aims, their power for good, have often, with wrong men, deteriorated into a boomerang to the human race.

  Leo Baekeland

  Niños, Conocimiento, Ciencia

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• On hearing the news [of being awarded a Nobel Prize], a friend who knows me only too well, sent me this laconic message: 'Blood, toil, sweat and tears always were a good mixture'.

  Max Perutz

  Sangre, sudor y lágrimas

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• The noble science of Geology loses glory from the extreme imperfection of the record. The crust of the earth with its embedded remains must not be looked at as a well-filled museum, but as a poor collection made at hazard and at rare intervals.

  Charles Darwin

  Science, Museums, Imperfection

  Charles Darwin (2003). “On the Origin of Species”, p.396, Broadview Press

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• All knowledge resolves itself into probability. ... In every judgment, which we can form concerning probability, as well as concerning knowledge, we ought always to correct the first judgment deriv'd from the nature of the object, by another judgment, deriv'd from the nature of the understanding.

  David Hume

  Knowledge, Science, Understanding

  David Hume (2003). “A Treatise of Human Nature”, p.130, Courier Corporation

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• It is better to have a few forms well known than to teach a little about many hundred species. Better a dozen specimens thoroughly studied as the result of the first year's work, than to have two thousand dollars' worth of shells and corals bought from a curiosity-shop. The dozen animals would be your own.

  Louis Agassiz

  Teaching, Knowledge, Science

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• Necessity is not the mother of invention. Knowledge and experiment are its parents. It sometimes happens that successful search is made for unknown materials to fill well-recognized and predetermined requirements. It more often happens that the acquirement of knowledge of the previously unknown properties of a material suggests its trial for some new use. These facts strongly indicate the value of knowledge of properties of materials and indicate a way for research.

  Willis R. Whitney

  Success, Mother, Knowledge

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• Research is industrial prospecting. The oil prospectors use every scientific means to find new paying wells. Oil is found by each one of a number of methods. My own group of men are prospecting in a different field, using every possible scientific means. We believe there are still things left to be discovered. We have only stumbled upon a few barrels of physical laws from the great pool of knowledge. Some day we are going to hit a gusher.

  Charles Kettering

  Believe, Knowledge, Mean

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• The scientist knows very well that he is approaching ultimate truth only in an asymptotic curve and is barred from ever reaching it; but at the same time he is proudly aware of being indeed able to determine whether a statement is a nearer or a less near approach to the truth.

  Konrad Lorenz

  Knowledge, Pride, Science

  Konrad Lorenz (2002). "On Aggression", p.279, Psychology Press

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• Science says: 'We must live,' and seeks the means of prolonging, increasing, facilitating and amplifying life, of making it tolerable and acceptable, wisdom says: 'We must die,' and seeks how to make us die well.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Death, Mean, Science

  Essays and Soliloquies 'Arbitrary Reflections'

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• Science, by itself, cannot supply us with an ethic. It can show us how to achieve a given end, and it may show us that some ends cannot be achieved. But among ends that can be achieved our choice must be decided by other than purely scientific considerations. If a man were to say, "I hate the human race, and I think it would be a good thing if it were exterminated," we could say, "Well, my dear sir, let us begin the process with you." But this is hardly argument, and no amount of science could prove such a man mistaken.

  Bertrand Russell

  Hate, Mistake, Science

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• Desde Copérnico, el hombre parece haberse colocado en un plano inclinado; ahora se desliza cada vez más rápido desde el centro hacia... ¿hacia qué? ¿hacia la nada? ¿hacia un "sentido penetrante de su nada?"... toda la ciencia, tanto la natural como la no natural -que es lo que yo llamo la autocrítica del conocimiento-, tiene en la actualidad el objetivo de disuadir al hombre de su antiguo respeto por sí mismo, como si éste no hubiera sido más que un pedazo de presunción bizarra.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Science, Men, Self

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• Prevalece entre los hombres de letras la opinión de que toda apariencia de ciencia es particularmente odiosa para las mujeres; y que, por lo tanto, quienquiera que desee ser bien recibido en las asambleas femeninas, debe calificarse a sí mismo por un rechazo total de todo lo que es serio, racional o importante; debe considerar el argumento o la crítica como perpetuamente prohibidos; y dedicar toda su atención a las bagatelas, y toda su elocuencia al cumplido.

  Samuel Johnson

  Science, Men, Rejection

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.297

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• It is mere rubbish thinking, at present, of origin of life; one might as well think of origin of matter.

  Charles Darwin

  Life, Science, Thinking

  Charles Darwin, Frederick Burkhardt (1999). “The Correspondence of Charles Darwin:”, p.278, Cambridge University Press

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• As is well known the principle of virtual velocities transforms all statics into a mathematical assignment, and by D'Alembert's principle for dynamics, the latter is again reduced to statics. Although it is is very much in order that in gradual training of science and in the instruction of the individual the easier precedes the more difficult, the simple precedes the more complicated, the special precedes the general, yet the min, once it has arrived at the higher standpoint, demands the reverse process whereby all statics appears only as a very special case of mechanics.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Science, Simple, Order

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• It is more important to have beauty in one's equations than to have them fit experiment... It seems that if one is working from the point of view of getting beauty in one's equations, and if one has really a sound insight, one is on a sure line of progress. If there is not complete agreement between the results of one's work and experiment, one should not allow oneself to be too discouraged, because the discrepancy may well be due to minor features that are not properly taken into account and that will get cleared up with further developments of the theory.

  Paul Dirac

  Taken, Science, Views

  "The Evolution of the Physicist's Picture of Nature". Article republished from May 1963 issue of Scientific American, blogs.scientificamerican.com. June 25, 2010.

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• The theoretical idea ... does not arise apart from and independent of experience; nor can it be derived from experience by a purely logical procedure. It is produced by a creative act. Once a theoretical idea has been acquired, one does well to hold fast to it until it leads to an untenable conclusion.

  Albert Einstein

  Creativity, Independent, Science

  Albert Einstein (1995). "Ideas y opiniones", Three Rivers Press

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• Understanding a theory has, indeed, much in common with understanding a human personality. We may know or understand a man's system of dispositions pretty well; that is to say, we may be able to predict how he would act in a number of different situations. But since there are infinitely many possible situations, of infinite variety, a full understanding of a man's dispositions does not seem to be possible.

  Karl Popper

  Science, Men, Numbers

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• Let us be well assured of the Matter of Fact, before we trouble our selves with enquiring into the Cause. It is true, that this Method is too slow for the greatest part of Mankind, who run naturally to the Cause, and pass over the Truth of the Matter of Fact.

  Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

  Running, Science, Self

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• El método científico de examinar los hechos no es peculiar de una clase de fenómenos y de una clase de trabajadores; es aplicable tanto a los problemas sociales como a los físicos, y debemos guardarnos cuidadosamente de suponer que el talante científico es una peculiaridad del científico profesional.

  Karl Pearson

  Ciencia, Clase, Suponiendo Que

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• Nothing could have been worse for the development of my mind than Dr. Butler's school, as it was strictly classical, nothing else being taught, except a little ancient geography and history. The school as a means of education to me was simply a blank. During my whole life I have been singularly incapable of mastering any language. Especial attention was paid to versemaking, and this I could never do well. I had many friends, and got together a good collection of old verses, which by patching together, sometimes aided by other boys, I could work into any subject.

  Charles Darwin

  Enseñanza, Media, Escuela

  Charles Darwin (2016). “Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: the Evolution”, p.25, VM eBooks

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• The popularisation of scientific doctrines is producing as great an alteration in the mental state of society as the material applications of science are effecting in its outward life. Such indeed is the respect paid to science, that the most absurd opinions may become current, provided they are expressed in language, the sound of which recals [sic] some well-known scientific phrase.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Science, Mind, Sound

  James Clerk Maxwell, Elizabeth Garber, Stephen G. Brush, C. W. Francis Everitt (1986). “Maxwell on Molecules and Gases”, p.112, MIT Press

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• The seeds of great discoveries are constantly floating around us, but they only take root in minds well-prepared to receive them.

  José Enrique

  Science, Discovery, Roots

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• You do not really care for God's mercy or His comfort either, so long as you live in any sin. And it is well that you do not; for you can have neither. Your peace will be like a river, when you put away your sin; but not one word of true peace, not one drop of true comfort, can you have till then.

  Alexander Whyte

  Rivers, Long, Comfort

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• A veces es bueno que un error flagrante llame la atención sobre verdades demasiado modestas.

  Jean Rostand

  Verdad, Error, Ciencia

  Jean Rostand (1962). "La sustancia del hombre"

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