“A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.”
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“Life is not an exact science, it is an art.”
“The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.”
“The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired.”
“It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.”
“There can be no truce between science and religion.”
“Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein's general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out.”
“Science may have found a cure for most evils but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.”
“Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.”
“The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.”
“Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.”
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.”
“Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.”
“The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.”
“Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.”
“We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.”
“It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.”
“Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.”
“If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.”
“Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.”
“Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.”
“Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.”
“We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.”
“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”