Motive Quote by C.P. Snow

The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature; its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos.

— William Irwin Thompson

For scientific endeavor is a natural whole the parts of which mutually support one another in a way which, to be sure, no one…

— Albert Einstein

The real purpose of the scientific method is to make sure nature hasn’t misled you into thinking you know something you actually don’t know.

— Robert M. Pirsig

The motive of science was the extension of man, on all sides, into Nature, till his hands should touch the stars, his eyes see…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Science is a process for learning about nature in which competing ideas about how the world works are measured against observations.

— Richard P. Feynman

In nature, when you conduct science, it is the natural world that is the ultimate decider in what is true and what is not.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding...

— Brian Greene

[Science is] the desire to know causes.

— William Hazlitt

“It is the impulse of science to try to understand nature, and the impulse of technology to try to manipulate it.”

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

“Science embodies the human desire to understand nature; technology couples that desire with the ambition to control nature.”

— Siddhartha Muker

Natural science does not consist in ratifying what others have said, but in seeking the causes of phenomena.

— Albertus Magnus

The particular thing about science is to combine that [the dreams of obtaining power] with a retreat from the world. Other people want to…

— Max Delbruck