Distress Quote by Blaise Cendrars

“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

Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism . . . the great masters of the past boasted all they could…

— Ezra Pound

"Science" is pedantic, arrogant, esoteric and often insane.

— Herbert M. Shelton

“science at its best was a flower of Western culture, unbiased, apolitical, transnational, open, and progressive. It destroyed superstition and cant. It threw at…

— Thomas Hager

Science is a bulwark against mysticism, against superstition, against religion misapplied to where it has no business being.

— Carl Sagan

Science is not a vast encyclopedia, it is a thin flame of reason burning across ample reservoirs of ignorance.

— Robert Kirshner

Note, to-day, an instructive, curious spectacle and conflict. Science, (twin, in its fields, of Democracy in its)—Science, testing absolutely all thoughts, all works, has…

— Walt Whitman

“The logical feebleness of science is not sufficiently borne in mind. It keeps down the weed of superstition, not by logic but by slowly…

— John Tyndall

The history of Science is not a mere record of isolated discoveries; it is a narrative of the conflict of two contending powers, the…

— John William Draper

Writers don't seem to benefit much by the advance of science, although they thrive on superstitions of all kinds.

— Northrop Frye

The history of science is the saga of nature defying common sense.

— Kedar Joshi

The study of science, dissociated from that of philosophy and literature, narrows the mind and weakens the power to love and follow the noblest…

— John Lancaster Spalding