976 private quotes tagged science

“In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.” — Galileo Galilei

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“Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question 'How?' but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question 'Why?'” — Erwin Chargaff

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“It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.” — Galileo Galilei

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“The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.” — Thomas Sowell

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“Man lives for science as well as bread.” — William James

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“Ecclesiasticism in science is only unfaithfulness to truth.” — Thomas Huxley

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“Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.” — Isaac Asimov

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“Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.” — Aleister Crowley

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“Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.” — Thomas Huxley

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“Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.” — Hippocrates

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“To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.” — Isaac Newton

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“Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.” — Thomas Huxley

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“Everything is fraught with danger. I love technology and I love science. It's just always all in the way you use it. So there's no - you can't really blame anything on the technology. It's just the way people use it, and it always has been.” — Steve Martin

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“Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements.” — Kenneth L. Pike

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“Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.” — Jules Verne

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“The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.” — John Ruskin

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“Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.” — John Burroughs

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“Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, but a new metaphysics can rescue us.” — Huston Smith

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“Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah.” — Thomas Huxley

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“Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing.” — Thomas Huxley

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“I'm not into politics but I am committed to a cause: ensuring design technology and engineering stays on the U.K. curriculum, alongside science and maths - grounding abstract theory, merging the practical with the academic.” — James Dyson

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“Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.” — Russell Baker

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“When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.” — W. H. Auden

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“No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life.” — Thomas Huxley

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“Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.” — Immanuel Kant

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