Category: science...

• Isaac Newton, with his boundless inquisitiveness, likened himself to a child playing on the seashore
• winning a prize at a science fair
• good scientists free themselves of concepts and keep their minds open to what is
• unbiased observations and systematic experimentation - a pursuit of knowledge covering general truths or the operations of fundamental laws
• from prehistoric archaeological evidence, we know that humans were close observers of nature who carefully traced the seasons and astronomical phenomena
• The best thing about the sciences is their philosophical ingredient, like life for an organic body. If one dephilosophizes the sciences, what remains left? Earth, air, and water. (Novalis [Friedrich Von Hardenberg])
• Science is not gadgetry. The desirable adjuncts of modern living, although in many instances made possible by science, certainly do not constitute science. Basic scientific knowledge often (but not always) is a prerequisite to such developments, but technology primarily deserves the credit for having the financial courage, the ingenuity, and the driving energy to see to it that so-called "pure knowledge" is in fact brought to the practical service of man. And it should also be recognized that those who have the urge to apply knowledge usefully have themselves often made significant contribution to pure knowledge and have even more often served as a stimulation to the activities of a pure researcher. (Warren Weaver)
• Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification. (K. Popper)
• Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness. (A. Crowley)

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