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Science would not be what it is if there had not been a Galileo, a Newton or a Lavoisier, any more than music would be what it is if Bach, Beethoven and Wagner had never lived. The world as we know it is the product of its geniuses—and there may be evil as well as beneficent genius—and to deny that fact, is to stultify all history, whether it be that of the intellectual or the economic world.

— Norman Robert Campbell

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Science is the noblest of the arts and men of science the most artistic of all artists.

Science is the study of those judgements concerning which universal agreement can be obtained.

Space and time are the conceptions of theory, not of laws. They are neither necessary nor useful in the statement of the results of any experiment.

It is notorious that men of science differ among themselves, that they accuse each other of being wrong, and that their discussions are quite as acrimonious as those of their philosophical or linguistic colleagues.

Science, like art, should not be something extraneous, added as a decoration to other activities of existence; it should be part of them, inspiring our most trivial actions as well as our noblest thoughts.

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