Accounts Quote by Alfred North Whitehead

To see what is general in what is particular, and what is permanent in what is transitory, is the aim of scientific thought.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Science walks forward on two feet, namely theory and experiment. Sometimes it is one foot which is put forward first, sometimes the other, but…

— Robert Andrews Millikan

Science is the knowledge of constant things, not merely of passing events, and is properly less the knowledge of general laws than of existing…

— John Ruskin

The science of the laws is the slow growth of time and experience.

— Edward Gibbon

“Science is a system of rational thought devised to investigate the world and establish the laws by which it operates. The scientist uses those…

— Joe Abercrombie

“Science may be defined as the reduction of multiplicity to unity. It seeks to explain the endlessly diverse phenomena of nature by ignoring the…

— Aldous Huxley

[The aim of science is] to explain what so far has taken to be an explicans, such as a law of nature. The task…

— Karl Popper

While, on the one hand, the end of scientific investigation is the discovery of laws, on the other, science will have reached its highest…

— William Mitchinson Hicks

Progress in science occurs in fits and starts, and paradigm shifts occur when evidence can be marshaled to support a new point of view.

— Priyamvada Natarajan

“One of the most profitable consequences of science as an “open system” of knowledge, as opposed to rigid dogma, is that the future Laws…

— Dean Radin

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

Science emerges from the other progressive activities of man to the extent that new concepts arise from experiments and observations, and that the new…

— James Bryant Conant