Science is the topography of ignorance. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Medical Essays, 1883
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A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that he is going to be a beginner all his life. – Robin G. Collingwood
Science goes from question to question big questions, and little, tentative answers. The questions as they age grow ever broader, the answers are seen to be more limited. – George Wald
Harmony is an obscure and difficult musical science, but most difficult to those who are not acquainted with the Greek language because it is necessary to use many Greek words to which there are none corresponding in Latin. – Marcus V. Pollio
If I can get some student interested in science, if I can show members of the general public whats going on up there in the space program, then my jobs been done. – Christa McAuliffe
We may take it to be the accepted idea that the Mosaic books were not handed down to us for our instruction in scientific knowledge, and that it is our duty to ground our scientific beliefs upon observation and inference, unmixed with considerations of a different order. – Asa Gray
