A Quote by Galileo Galilei

Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.

Galileo Galilei

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Galileo Galilei
Italian - Scientist
February 15, 1564 - January 8, 1642

It takes much more energy to ignore things than it takes to deal with them and not be afflicted by them anymore.

Jack Schwarz

Round about the accredited and orderly facts of every science there ever floats a sort of dust-cloud of exceptional observations, of occurrences minute and irregular and seldom met with, which it always proves more easy to ignore than to attend to... Anyone will renovate his science who will steadily look after the irregular phenomena, and when science is renewed, its new formulas often have more of the voice of the exceptions in them than of what were supposed to be the rules.

William James

Everyone has been taught that technique is an application of science.... This traditional view is radically false. It takes into account only a single category of science and only a short period of time

Jacques Ellul

A man made for public life and authority never takes account of personalities; he only takes account of things, of their weight and their conseqences.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Around the world, Gandhi, Nelson Mandela -- what they did was hard. It takes time. It takes more than a single term. It takes more than a single president. It takes more than a single individual.

Barack Obama

Every woman in choosing a lover takes more account of the way in which other women regard the man than of her own.

Nicolas Chamfort

Rhetoric takes no real account of the art in literature and morality takes no account of the art in life.

Joseph Wood Krutch

Debunking bad science should be constant obligation of the science community, even if it takes time away from serious research or seems to be a losing battle. One takes comfort from the fact there is no Gresham's laws in science. In the long run, good science drives out bad.

Martin Gardner

Science proceeds by successive answers to questions more and more subtle, coming nearer and nearer to the very essence of phenomena.

Louis Pasteur

There's more people to ignore in New York or Boston than there are in Milwaukee, but I would still ignore them, probably.

Zack Greinke

I think the humanities always have to take science, our great knowledge that we get from science, into account, but then try to answer the human questions and try to make sense out of our lives, taking into account all of the scientific knowledge.

Rebecca Goldstein

What I will NOT do is pretend someone isn't present who is. I believe that is why I am so vocal and confrontational when there is a problem, because I will not ignore a problem and or people. It actually takes more energy to physically ignore someone.

Kenya Moore

Little science takes you away from God but more of it takes you to Him.

Louis Pasteur

Philosophy ought to be able to give an account of rationality that is not wholly detached from science's account of nature, even if it is not straightforwardly reducible to it.

Ray Brassier

The theory of ramification is one of pure colligation, for it takes no account of magnitude or position; geometrical lines are used, but these have no more real bearing on the matter than those employed in genealogical tables have in explaining the laws of procreation.