Top Scientific Theory Quotes
This theory [the oxygen theory] is not as I have heard it described, that of the French chemists, it is mine (elle est la mienne); it is a property which I claim from my contemporaries and from poster...
Antoine Lavoisier
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science, chemistry, discovery, invention, french, theory, posterity, scientist, scientific theory, oxygen theory
Theories cannot claim to be indestructible. They are only the plough which the ploughman uses to draw his furrow and which he has every right to discard for another one, of improved design, after the...
Paul Sabatier
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science, metaphor, right, ambition, improvement, fallibility, harvest, scientist, scientific theory, which
The young specialist in English Lit, having quoted me, went on to lecture me severely on the fact that in every century people have thought they understood the Universe at last, and in every century t...
Isaac Asimov
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knowledge, science, wisdom, universe, understanding, wrong, ignorance, earth, theory, relativity