“some manner of cause-and-effect relationship existed between the rise of scientific knowledge and the decline of magic.” — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
...it is time [for Islam] to assume, along with all of the great cultural traditions, the modern risks of scientific knowledge. — Mohammed Arkoun Copy Share Image
Scientific knowledge is an enabling power to do either good or bad — but it does not carry instructions on how to… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
The advance of scientific knowledge does not seem to make either our universe or our inner life in it any less mysterious. — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution; it finds itself changed from one day to the next. — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
Scepticism and refusal of authority is at the heart of scientific endeavour. Scientific knowledge dictates economic possibilities — David Landes Copy Share Image
All scientific knowledge to which man owes his role as master of the world arose from playful activities. — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature. — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
I think the humanities always have to take science, our great knowledge that we get from science, into account, but then try… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
All knowledge is in response to a question. If there were no question, there would be no scientific knowledge. Nothing proceeds from… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty -- some most unsure, some nearly sure, none absolutely certain. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
What our species needs, above all else, is a generally accepted ethical system that is compatible with the scientific knowledge we now… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No longer is science asked to understand the world, or to improve any part of it. It is asked instead to immediately… — Guy Debord Copy Share Image
To be sure, the doctrine of a personal God interfering with natural events could never be refuted, in the real sense, by… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Not facts, not scientific knowledge, but eternal Truth delivers men, and that eternal Truth became flesh to dwell among us. "This is… — A.W. Tozer Copy Share Image
“If these out-of date beliefs are to be called myths, then myths can be produced by the same sorts of methods and… — Thomas S. Kuhn Copy Share Image
The responsibility for the creation of new scientific knowledge - and for most of its application - rests on that small body… — Vannevar Bush Copy Share Image
The fact that these scientific theories have a fine track record of successful prediction and explanation speaks for itself. (Which is not… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
The chief requisite for the making of a good chicken pie is chicken; no amount of culinary legerdemain can make up for… — George Sarton Copy Share Image
Modern scientific knowledge appeared piecemeal. Historians wrote about human history; physicists tackled the material world; and biologists studied the world of living… — David Christian Copy Share Image
Science is not marginal. Like art, it is a universal possession of humanity, and scientific knowledge has become a vital part of… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
All kinds of mysterious phenomena exist in this world, but answers to most of them have come with advances in scientific knowledge.… — Mo Yan Copy Share Image
Scientific knowledge is, by its nature, provisional. This is due to the fact that as time goes on, with the invention of… — Priyamvada Natarajan Copy Share Image
In mysticism, knowledge cannot be separated from a certain way of life which becomes its living manifestation. To acquire mystical knowledge means… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
“ Technicians are triply invisible. First, they have traditionally been invisible to historians and sociologists of science. . . . Second, they have… — Clifford D. Conner Copy Share Image
“It seems that scientific research reaches deeper and deeper. But it also seems that more and more people, at least scientists, are… — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share Image
“As I see it the world is undoubtedly in need of a new religion, and that religion must be founded on humanist… — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
“The more a man is imbued with the ordered regularity of all events the firmer becomes his conviction that there is no… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“The history of the knowledge of the phenomena of life and of the organized world can be divided into two main periods.… — Paul Ehrlich Copy Share Image
“Which do you think is more valuable to humanity? a. Finding ways to tell humans that they have free will despite the… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
“It may be admitted that, as far as scientific knowledge is concerned, a body of suitably chosen experts may be in the… — Friedrich A. Hayek Copy Share Image
“So, ‘sensation’ and ‘judgment’ have together lost their apparent clearness: we have observed that they were clear only as long as the… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
I strongly believe in the existence of God, based on intuition, observations, logic, and also scientific knowledge. — Charles Hard Townes Copy Share Image
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
I want to discover a truth for myself that is really true. Whether it's a piece of scientific knowledge, or a philosophical… — William Shatner Copy Share Image
An impersonal and scientific knowledge of the structure of our bodies is the surest safeguard against prurient curiosity and lascivious gloating. — Marie Stopes Copy Share Image
It is rather astonishing how little practical value scientific knowledge has for ordinary men, how dull and commonplace such of it as… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
Faith is harder to shake than knowledge, love succumbs less to change than respect, hate is more enduring than aversion, and the… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Indeed science alone may perhaps be sterile when pursued without an understanding of the world in which scientific knowledge is created and… — Polykarp Kusch Copy Share Image
Khem was an ancient name for the land of Egypt; and both the words alchemy and chemistry are a perpetual reminder of… — Manly Hall Copy Share Image