In science it often happens that scientists say, "You know…

In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken', and then they would actually…

— Dr Carl Sagan

In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually…

— Carl Sagan

“As so often happens when scientists quarrel, a lay audience is left to choose their preferred fairy tale”

— Richard T Nash

The government is right to recognise the importance of science and technology, but I think it is a mistake to ringfence funds.

— Mark Walport

I shall devote only a few lines to the expression of my belief in the importance of science … it is by this daily…

— Marie Curie

My life is dedicated to the discovery of God, the advancement of science, and the pre-eminence of England.

— Kedar Joshi

Even the development of the steam engine owed but little to the advancement of science.

— James Bryant Conant

There are lots of excellent analysts out there. John Holdren at the Harvard Kennedy School, who was just president of the American Association for…

— Paul R. Ehrlich

Influenced by him, and probably even more so by my brother Theodore a year older than me, I soon became interested in biology and…

— Frederick Sanger

Agency by agency, we frequently have lost a bit of ground, at least to inflation-but had it not been for the efforts we've made…

— Anonymous

Nothing has tended more to retard the advancement of science than the disposition in vulgar minds to vilify what they cannot comprehend.

— Samuel Johnson

I'm basically a dinosaur. I don't use e-mail. But I do recognize the importance of science and the resulting possibilities.

— Bernard Marcus

People complain that our generation has no philosophers. They are wrong. They now sit in another faculty. Their names are Max Planck and Albert…

— Adolf von Harnack

[Young] was afterwards accustomed to say, that at no period of his life was he particularly fond of repeating experiments, or even of very…

— Hudson Gurney

I'm big on the importance of science, particularly right now at this point in time when there's sort of a systematic rejection of science…

— Seth MacFarlane