Science Quotes

8871 Science quotes by 3328 unique authors

Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts. — Heinz Pagels
Science corrects the old creeds, sweeps away, with every new perception, our infantile catechisms, and necessitates a faith commensurate with the grander orbits and universal… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Science deals exclusively with things as they are in themselves. — John Ruskin
Science does not have a moral dimension. It is like a knife. If you give it to a surgeon or a murderer, each will use… — Wernher von Braun
Science does not rest upon solid bedrock. The bold structure of its theories rises, as it were, above a swamp. It is like a building… — Karl Popper
Science even more than the Gospel teaches us humility. She cannot look down on anything, she does not know what superiority means, she despises nothing,… — Alexander Herzen
Science finds it methods. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Science goes from question to question; big questions, and little, tentative answers. The questions as they age grow ever broader, the answers are seen to… — George Wald
Science had better not free the minds of men too much, before it has tamed their instincts. — Jean Rostand
Science has been seriously retarded by the study of what is not worth knowing and of what is not knowable. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Science has done much for us; but it is a poor science that would hide from us the great deep sacred infinitude of Nescience, on… — Thomas Carlyle
Science has explored the microcosmos and the macrocosmos; we have a good sense of the lay of the land. The great unexplored frontier is complexity. — Heinz Pagels
Science has not solved difficulties, only shifted the points of difficulty. — Charles Henry Parkhurst
Science has succeeded to poetry, no less in the little walks of children than with men. Is there no possibility of averting this sore evil? — Charles Lamb
Science is not a sacred cow-but there are a large number of would-be sacred cowherds busily devoting quantities of time, energy and effort to the… — John W. Campbell
Science is a way to not fool ourselves. — Carl Sagan
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it. One should earn one's living by work of which… — Albert Einstein
Science is an enterprise that can only flourish if it puts the truth ahead of nationality, ethnicity, class and color. — John Charles Polanyi
Science is busy with the hither-end of things, not the thither-end. — Charles Henry Parkhurst
Science is dangerous. There is no question but that poison gas, genetic engineering, and nuclear weapons and power stations are terrifying. It may be that… — Isaac Asimov
Science is founded on uncertainty. Each time we learn something new and surprising, the astonishment comes with the realization that we were wrong before. — Lewis Thomas
Science is not a substitute for common sense, but an extension of it. — Willard Van Orman Quine
Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers. If you… — Arthur Eddington
Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense-experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought. — Albert Einstein
Science is the language of the temporal world; love is that of the spiritual world. Man, indeed, describes more than he explains; while the angelic… — Honore de Balzac

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