Modern Science Quotes

77 Modern Science quotes by 69 unique authors

I believe that ideas such as absolute certitude, absolute exactness, final truth, etc. are figments of the imagination which should not be admissible in any… — Max Born
I should like to say that I am as proud of my Chinese heritage and background as I am devoted to modern science, a part… — Chen-Ning Yang
The capacity to tolerate complexity and welcome contradiction, not the need for simplicity and certainty, is the attribute of an explorer. Centuries ago, when some… — Heinz Pagels
The products of modern science are not in themselves good or bad; it is the way they are used that determines their value. — Marshall McLuhan
Mathematics as we know it and as it has come to shape modern science could never have come into being without some disregard for the… — Unknown Author
Freedom without the strength to support it and, if need be, defend it, would be a cruel delusion. And the strength to defend freedom can… — Jamsetji Tata
Astronomy leads us to a unique event, a universe which was created out of nothing, and delicately balanced to provide exactly the conditions required to… — Arno Allan Penzias
On the philosophical level, both Buddhism and modern science share a deep suspicion of any notion of absolutes, whether conceptualize as a transcendent being, as… — Dalai Lama
I now believe that the universe was brought into existence by an infinite Intelligence. I believe that this universe's intricate laws manifest what scientists have… — Antony Flew
I’m alarmed that to think than modern science may be turning creativity into a medical disorder — Thomas Armstrong
This book is unique. I know of no other which so artfully tackles two of the greatest mysteries of modern science, quantum mechanics, and consciousness.… — George Greenstein
Quantum mechanics, that brilliantly successful flagship theory of modern science, is deeply mysterious and hard to understand. Eastern mystics have always been deeply mysterious and… — Richard Dawkins
The soul is one of the most venerable, enduring images of spiritual traditions worldwide. In The Great Field, John James brings new information to this… — Larry Dossey
The seventeenth century witnessed the birth of modern science as we know it today. This science was something new, based on a direct confrontation of… — I. Bernard Cohen
Modern science and technology can relieve men of the necessity for specialized, imbecile labor. They may, in principle, provide the basis for a rational social… — Noam Chomsky
Modern science has its value in terms of utility, but it cannot open up existence to human experience. — Jaggi Vasudev
For 500 years the West patented six killer applications that set it apart. The first to download them was Japan. Over the last century, one… — Niall Ferguson
"Half genius and half buffoon," Freeman Dyson ... wrote. ... [Richard] Feynman struck him as uproariously American-unbuttoned and burning with physical energy. It took him… — James Gleick
Modern science, then, so far from being an enemy of romance, is seen on every hand to be its sympathetic and resourceful friend, its swift… — Richard Le Gallienne
Scientific men can hardly escape the charge of ignorance with regard to the precise effect of the impact of modern science upon the mode of… — Frederick Soddy
The position of modern science, as far as an ignorant man of letters can understand it, seems not a step in advance of that held… — Albert J. Nock
Ever since the beginning of modern science, the best minds have recognized that "the range of acknowledged ignorance will grow with the advance of science."… — Friedrich August von Hayek
In the years since man unlocked the power stored up within the atom, the world has made progress, halting, but effective, toward bringing that power… — John F. Kennedy
It is always the individual who thinks. Society does not think any more than it eats or drinks. The evolution of human reasoning from the… — Ludwig von Mises
Modern science has vindicated the natural equality of man. — Benjamin Disraeli

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