Calculus Quote by Antonin Artaud

Turn over the pages of history and read the damning record of the church's opposition to every advance in every field of science. . . .

— Upton Sinclair

I find it as difficult to understand a scientist who does not acknowledge the presence of a superior rationality behind the existence of the…

— Wernher von Braun

“Real understanding of any scientific subject must include some knowledge of its historical growth; we cannot comprehend and accept modern concepts and theories without…

— Colin Cherry

People who dismiss science in favor of religion sometimes confuse the challenge of rigorously understanding the world with a deliberate intellectual exclusion that leads…

— Lisa Randall

“Science is generated by and devoted to free inquiry: the idea that any hypothesis, no matter how strange, deserves to be considered on its…

— Carl Sagan

Every science is a profane restatement of the preceding dogmas of the religious period

— Francis Parker Yockey

“the rigorously impersonal view of science might one day appear as having been a temporarily useful eccentricity rather than the definitively triumphant position which…

— William James

“Science is no inexorable march to truth, mediated by the collection of objective information and the destruction of ancient superstition. Scientists, as ordinary human…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Those of us engaged in the practice of science come to feel a certain reverence for it, engendered by its demonstrable power to dissect,…

— Carolyn Porco

Faith in the possibility of science, generated antecedently to the development of modern scientific theory, is an unconscious derivative from medieval theology.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Science is history arranged according to the superstition and taste of the moment. The vocabulary of scholars has no wit, no salt. These heavy…

— Blaise Cendrars

“It was perhaps inevitable that a reverence for all things ‘scientific’ should be accompanied by some scorn for ‘natural’ processes.”

— Gabrielle Palmer