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Positivism is a theory of knowledge according to which the only kind of sound knowledge available to human kind is that if science grounded in… — Auguste Comte
Reliable scientific knowledge is value free and has no moral or ethical value. Science tells us how the world is. ... Dangers and ethical issue… — Lewis Wolpert
Science and technology have freed humanity from many burdens and given us this new perspective and great power. This power can be used for the… — Jawaharlal Nehru
Science deals exclusively with things as they are in themselves; and art exclusively with things as they affect the human sense and human soul. — John Ruskin
Science has but one fashion-to lose nothing once gained. — Edmund Clarence Stedman
Science has to do with facts, art with phenomena. To science, phenomena are of use only as they lead to facts; and to art, facts… — John Ruskin
Science is a collection of stories, linking characters worthy of notice. — John Charles Polanyi
Science is feasible when the variables are few and can be enumerated; when their combinations are distinct and clear. We are tending toward the condition… — Paul Valery
Science is like society and trade, in resting at bottom upon a basis of faith. There are some things here, too, that we can not… — Charles Henry Parkhurst
Science is not addressed to poets. — George Henry Lewes
Science repudiates philosophy. In other words, it has never cared to justify its truth or explain its meaning. — Alfred North Whitehead
Science studies the relations of things to each other: but art studies only their relations to man. — John Ruskin
The ancients had a taste, let us say rather a passion, for the marvellous, which caused ... grouping together the lofty deeds of a great… — Francois Arago
The birth of science was the death of superstition. — Thomas Huxley
The fundamental concepts of physical science, it is now understood, are abstractions, framed by our mind, so as to bring order to an apparent chaos… — William Cecil Dampier
The idea of a method that contains firm, unchanging, and absolutely binding principles for conducting the business of science meets considerable difficulty when confronted with… — Paul Feyerabend
The most remarkable discovery made by scientists is science itself. The discovery must be compared in importance with the invention of cave-painting and of writing.… — Jacob Bronowski
Theories are like a stairway; by climbing, science widens its horizon more and more, because theories embody and necessarily include proportionately more facts as they… — Claude Bernard
Theorists write all the popular books on science: Heinz Pagels, Frank Wilczek, Stephen Hawking, Richard Feynman, et al. And why not? They have all that… — Leon M. Lederman
There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
To the engineer falls the job of clothing the bare bones of science with life, comfort, and hope. — Herbert Hoover
Tobacco has not yet been fully tried before the bar of science. But the tribunal has been prepared and the gathering of evidence has begun… — John Harvey Kellogg
Toil of science swells the wealth of art. — Friedrich Schiller
We hail science as man's truest friend and noblest helper. — Moses Harvey
We men who serve science serve only a reflection in a mirror. — Richard E. Byrd

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