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The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts

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

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The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer. Indeed the measure of our intellectual maturity, one philosopher suggests, is our capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers to better problems. – G.W. Allport, Becoming, 1955

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He that desireth to acquire any art or science seeketh first those means by which that art or science is obtained. If we ought to do so in things natural and earthly, how much more then in spiritual? – Robert Barclay

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