Philip Plait Quote About Science: Welcome to Science
“Welcome to science. You’re gonna like it here.”
Philip Plait
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A Goal Without a Plan Is Just a Wish – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“A goal without a pan is just a wish.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Quote by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry on Truth and Knowledge
“Truth is not that which is demonstrable but that which is ineluctable.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Quote by Voltaire on the Art of Medicine and Healing
“The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.”
Voltaire
Quote by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry on Admiration and Love
“Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Quote by Werner Karl Heisenberg on Expertise and Mistakes
“Many people will tell you that an expert is someone who knows a great deal about the subject. To this I would object that one can never know much about any subject. I would much prefer the following definition: an expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in the subject, and how to avoid them.”
Werner Karl Heisenberg
Albert Jay Nock on the Origin of the State
“The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner.”
Albert Jay Nock
Think for yourselves – Quote by Voltaire
“Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.”
Voltaire
Quote by Paul Feyerabend on Science and Its Limits
“Science is only ‘one’ of the many instruments people invented to cope with their surroundings. It is not the only one, it is not infallible and it has become too powerful, too pushy and too dangerous to be left on its own.”
Paul Feyerabend
Quote by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry on Mental Freedom
“I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry