“The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.”
Thomas Edison · attributed
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14 quotes on science and discovery — from the classics to the everyday.
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“Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.”
William Osler · attributed
“Knowledge is growing exponentially; knowledge needed to fend off our problems is growing faster than the problems.”
Steven Pinker · Enlightenment Now, 2018
“The decline of violence may be the most significant and least appreciated development in the history of our species.”
Steven Pinker · The Better Angels of Our Nature, 2011
“As the world has gotten more rational, it has gotten less cruel.”
Steven Pinker · The Better Angels of Our Nature, 2011
“The world has made spectacular progress in every single measure of human well-being. Here is a second shocker: almost no one knows about it.”
Steven Pinker · Enlightenment Now, 2018
“Progress is not utopia, but the gradual improvement of human flourishing through reason, science, and humanism.”
Steven Pinker · Enlightenment Now, 2018
“The truth sat in the clay for a thousand years before anyone gave it a name.”
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“The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.”
Voltaire
“What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.”
Isaac Newton
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.”
Albert Einstein · What I Believe, 1930
“The world is woven from billions of lives, every strand crossing every other. What we call premonition is just movement of the web. If you could attenuate to every strand of quivering data, the future would be entirely calculable, as inevitable as mathematics.”
Sherlock Holmes · BBC Sherlock, Series 3, Episode 2: The Sign of Three, 2014
“Technology is neither good nor bad; nor is it neutral.”
Melvin Kranzberg · Kranzberg's First Law, 1986
