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🇫🇷Louis Pasteur

Science

1904–1989

"S’il est terrifiant de penser que la vie puisse être à la merci de la multiplication de ces infiniment petits, il est consolant aussi d’espérer que la science ne restera pas toujours impuissante devant de tels ennemis."

"Economics are the method; the object is to change the heart and soul."

"From the fame opinion of a soul distinct from the body came the practice of praying, first for the dead, and then to them with a long train of other absurd opinions, and superstitious practices."

"William Crookes : A Victorian Man of Science" by Cyril Norman Hinshelwood"

"Could the search for ultimate truth really have revealed so hideous and visceral looking an object?"

"Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue."

"The secret of science is to ask the right question, and it is the choice of problem more than anything else that marks the man of genius in the scientific world."

"The acquisition of a new truth is like the acquisition of a new sense, which renders a man capable and recognizing a large number of phenomena that are hidden from another, as they were from him originally."

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🇫🇷Marcellin Berthelot

Science

freethought

1827–1907

"Science... dominates all things, it alone is of any definite utility. No man, no institution shall henceforth have an enduring authority if they do not conform themselves to its precepts."

"People who get Nobel prizes aren't necessarily the most imaginative of people. People who sometimes find a system, develop a system, do very useful work."

"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less."

"To be in contact with scientists, to become in a small way a scientist myself if possible, perhaps to cast new light on physical phenomena, to be able to uncover what is real and definitive, was my life's great dream."

"Doctor, you have science, I have faith.--to his physician, this was possibly a Jules Verne quote."

"Keep stupid, keep crazy. Knowledge begins with wonder. Success as a scientist is based on keen curiosity. If one wants to enjoy academic life, I would recommend him or her to be different."

"...when I started doing chemistry, I did it the way I fished – for the excitement, the discovery, the adventure, for going after the most elusive catch imaginable in uncharted seas."

🇺🇸George Washington Carver

Technology

1864–1943

"The Life of George Washington Carver: In His Own Words, Eagle Forum University."

"Who was the first to classify materials as "compounds"? - Fred Senese"

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🇸🇪Jöns Jacob Berzelius

Science

1779–1848

"In arranging the bodies in order of their electrical nature, there is formed an electro-chemical system which, in my opinion, is more fit than any other to give an idea of chemistry."

"In the final analysis, in science, unlike art, the individual hardly matters."

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🇬🇧William Henry Bragg

Science

1862–1942

"On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays we use the wave theory; on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays we think in streams of flying energy quanta or corpuscles."

"The Posthumous Works of Robert Hooke by Richard Waller, including "The Life of Robert Hooke"

"A Persian by birth, Biruni produced his writings in Arabic, though he knew, besides Persian, no less than four other languages."

"Video Podcast with Sir John Cadogan talking about Benzene since Faraday"

"Pathological Science" lecture at GE labs"

"I cannot conceive, how a body, destitute of understanding and sense, truly so called, can moderate and determine its own motions; especially so as to make them conformable to laws that it has no knowledge of."

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