Abstract Quote by Alfred North Whitehead

Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information; it is a creative human activity.

— Stephen Jay Gould

Science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgements of all kinds remain necessary.

— Albert Einstein

The separation of science and non-science is not only artificial but also detrimental to the advancement of knowledge. If we want to understand nature,…

— Paul Feyerabend

It is understandable that people want to know how it affects them. But as a scientist, I would hope society would be equally interested…

— Donna Strickland

Science manipulates things and gives up living in them. It makes its own limited models of things; operating upon these indices or variables to…

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

History proves abundantly that pure science, undertaken without regard to applications to human needs, is usually ultimately of direct benefit to mankind.

— Irving Langmuir

Science...is part and parcel of our knowledge and obscures our insight only when it holds that the understanding given by it is the only…

— Carl Jung

Science is a fundamental part of our existence.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Everywhere science is enriched by unscientific methods and unscientific results, ... the separation of science and non-science is not only artificial but also detrimental…

— Paul Feyerabend

The theory of science which permits and encourages the exclusion of so much that is true and real and existent cannot be considered a…

— Abraham Maslow

At present, when the prevailing forms of society have become hindrances to the free expression of human powers, it is precisely the abstract branches…

— Max Horkheimer

Science ... has no consideration for ultimate purposes, any more than Nature has, but just as the latter occasionally achieves things of the greatest…

— Friedrich Nietzsche