wonder is the mother of all science.

Curiosity is the mother of science, wonder is the mother of spirituality.

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Philosophy is the true mother of science.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

I don't join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn't have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying…

— Noam Chomsky

But to me all sciences seem vain and full of error that are not born of experience, mother of all certainty, and do not…

— Leonardo da Vinci

When will society, like a mother, take care of all her children?

— Horace Mann

“Empirically, things are poignant, tragic, beautiful, humorous, settled, disturbed, comfortable, annoying, barren, harsh, consoling, splendid, fearful; are such immediately and in their own right…

— John Dewey

I wonder how, among the Fremont, mothers and daughters shared their world. Did they walk side by side along the lake edge? What stories…

— Terry Tempest Williams

The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.

— Erich Fromm

A common fallacy in much of the adverse criticism to which science is subjected today is that it claims certainty, infallibility and complete emotional…

— Cyril Norman Hinshelwood

My dad's family were political and he was always a theatrical creature, whereas my mum is really musical and her father was the touring…

— Grace Jones

Dear Mother, I am getting on nicely in my work at the bank, and like it ... I want to find out something about…

— T. S. Eliot

Physicist Isador Isaac Rabi, who won a Nobel Prize for inventing a technique that permitted scientists to probe the structure of atoms and molecules…

— Richard Saul Wurman

My mother was strong-willed, demanding, and very supportive all at the same time.

— Michael Spence

(knitting while on a motorcycle) "For several years she knitted in secret (my father would not approve; she was to concentrate on motorcycling and…

— Elizabeth Zimmermann

My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw…

— Elizabeth Taylor