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From all this it follows what the general character of the problem of the development of a body of scientific knowledge is, in so far as it depends on elements internal to science itself.

— Talcott Parsons

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

In the history of science, we often find that the study of some natural phenomenon has been the starting point in the development of a new branch of knowledge.

— C. V. Raman

Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse.

— Jean-Francois Lyotard

Science is based on reproducibility and manufactured objectivity. As strong as that makes its ability to generate claims about matter and energy, it also makes scientific knowledge inapplicable to the existential, visceral nature of human life, which is unique and subjective and unpredictable.

— Paul Kalanithi

Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature.

— Luther Burbank

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

— Carl Sagan

The increase of scientific knowledge lies not only in the occasional milestones of science, but in the efforts of the very large body of men who with love and devotion observe and study nature.

— Polykarp Kusch

The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.

— Avicenna

Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings; nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials.

— Avicenna

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.

— Frank Herbert

✗Opposing Perspectives

The development of science is basically a social phenomenon, dependent on hard work and mutual support of many scientists and on the societies in which they live.

— Charles H. Townes