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"Practical sciences proceed by building up; theoretical sciences by resolving into components." — Saint Thomas Aquinas, 'Sententia libri Ethicorum' (Commentary on the Nicomachean Ethics) [1271].
"Science is an essentially anarchic enterprise: theoretical anarchism is more humanitarian and more likely to encourage progress than its law-and-order alternatives." — Paul K. Feyerabend, 'Against Method'
"Can we ring the bells backward? Can we unlearn the arts that pretend to civilize, and then burn the world? There is a march of science; but who shall beat the drums for its retreat?" — Charles Lamb
"I think chemistry is being frittered away by the hairsplitting of the organic chemists; we have new…
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