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Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich
The most heated defenders of a science, who cannot endure the slightest sneer at it, are commonly those who have not made very much progress in it and are secretly aware of this defect
There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly
True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant
Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them
Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers
If I found any new truths in the sciences, I can say that they follow from, or depend on, five or six principal problems which I succeeded in solving and which I regard as so many battles where the fortunes of war were on my side
Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men
It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of
It is not easy to imagine how little interested a scientist usually is in the work of any other, with the possible exception of the teacher who backs him or the student who honors him
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