Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
Interpretation
Imagination and bold thinking are essential for scientific progress.
John Dewey emphasizes the crucial role of imagination in scientific advancements. He suggests that every significant leap in science originates from the courage to think differently and creatively, breaking away from conventional limitations.
In practice
Use this quote in a science class to encourage students to think outside the box.
Every teacher should realize he is a social servant set apart for the maintenance of the proper social order and the securing of the right social growth. In this way, the teacher always is the prophet of the true God and the usherer-in of the true Kingdom of God.
Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife.
It science involves an intelligent and persistent endeavor to revise current beliefs so as to weed out what is erroneous, to add to their accuracy, and, above all, to give them such shape that the dependencies of the various facts upon one another may be as obvious as possible.
For in spite of itself any movement that thinks and acts in terms of an βism becomes so involved in reaction against other βisms that it is unwittingly controlled by them. For it then forms its principles by reaction against them instead of by a comprehensive, constructive survey of actual needs, problems, and possibilities.
Any genuine teaching will result, if successful, in someone's knowing how to bring about a better condition of things than existed earlier.
The reactionaries are in possession of force, in not only the army and police, but in the press and the schools
In space, you need to exercise your heart since it's not pumping blood around at the same rate.
There we measure shadows, and we search among ghostly errors of measurement for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial.
It is true that some off-label drug use is based on very unsettled science and has more risks. But medicine - and not just cancer care - involves lots of hard choices. And the more serious the disorder, often the more likely it is that for every right and wrong treatment choice there are many other practical decisions painted in shades of gray.
That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.
Medical science has proven time and again that when the resources are provided, great progress in the treatment, cure, and prevention of disease can occur.
If you don't get a good night's sleep, the events of the day are not properly encoded in memory.
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