Accounts Quote by Arthur Balfour

We are terribly imaginative, as far as technique in science is concerned. As far as changes in social arrangements are concerned, we lack utterly…

— Erich Fromm

...Science and mathematics Run parallel to reality, they symbolize it, they squint at it, They never touch it: consider what an explosion Would rock…

— Robinson Jeffers

Mankind will possess incalculable advantages and extraordinary control over human behavior when the scientific investigator will be able to subject his fellow men to…

— Ivan Pavlov

I believe that not everything we humans encounter in our lives can be neatly and convincingly tucked away inside the orderly cabinetry of science.

— Mary Roach

We are having wool pulled over our eyes if we let ourselves be convinced that scientists, taken as a group, are anything special in…

— Anthony Standen

“We must therefore glean up our experiments in this science from a cautious observation of human life, and take them as they appear in…

— David Hume

We have to learn again that science without contact with experiments is an enterprise which is likely to go completely astray into imaginary conjecture.

— Hannes Alfven

Artists and scientists both think outside the box. They've got to come with genius experiments or ideas to expose the most interesting phenomena.

— Cornelia Parker

Every physical fact, every expression of nature, every feature of the earth, the work of any and all of those agents which make the…

— Matthew Fontaine Maury

Men will gather knowledge no matter what the consequences. Science will go on whether we are pessimistic or optimistic, as I am. More interesting…

— Linus Pauling

And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization.

— Chauncey Wright

“Those whose acquaintance with scientific research is derived chiefly from its practical results easily develop a completely false notion of the mentality of the…

— Dean Radin