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Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr

Men can construct a science with very few instruments, or with very plain instruments; but no one on earth could construct a science with…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Science is not ... a perfect instrument, but it is a superb and invaluable tool that works harm only when taken as an end…

— Carl Jung

Modern Man is the victim of the very instruments he values most. Every gain in power, every mastery of natural forces, every scientific addition…

— Lewis Mumford

Science is only ‘one’ of the many instruments people invented to cope with their surroundings. It is not the only one, it is not…

— Paul Feyerabend

[I]t is necessary to insist upon this extraordinary but undeniable fact: experimental science has progressed thanks in great part to the work of men…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

Elaborate apparatus plays an important part in the science of to-day, but I sometimes wonder if we are not inclined to forget that the…

— William Ian Beardmore Beveridge

The most exciting science requires the most complex instruments.

— Barry Barish

From a purely positivist point of view, man is the most mysterious and disconcerting of all the objects met with by science.

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Physics is the most fundamental, and least significant, of the sciences.

— Ken Wilber

The man of science, like the man of letters, is too apt to view mankind only in the abstract, selecting in his consideration only…

— James G. Frazer

Science is to be much commended for the ingenuity, the patience, and the persistency it displays in the invention of instruments wherewith to ferret…

— Max Heindel