Science Quotes

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That science has long been neglected and declining in England, is not an opinion originating with me, but is shared by many, and has been… — Charles Babbage
The acquirements of science may be termed the armour of the mind; but that armour would be worse than useless, that cost us all we… — Charles Caleb Colton
The aim of science is not things themselves, as the dogmatists in their simplicity imagine, but the relation between things. — Henri Poincare
The aim of science is, on the one hand, as complete a comprehension as possible of the connection between perceptible experiences in their totality, and,… — Albert Einstein
The application of algebra to geometry ... has immortalized the name of Descartes, and constitutes the greatest single step ever made in the progress of… — John Stuart Mill
The body of science is not, as it is sometimes thought, a huge coherent mass of facts, neatly arranged in sequence, each one attached to… — Lewis Thomas
The cause and root of nearly all evils in the sciences is this-that while we falsely admire and extol the powers of the human mind… — Francis Bacon
The classification of facts and the formation of absolute judgments upon the basis of this classification-judgments independent of the idiosyncrasies of the individual mind-essentially sum… — Karl Pearson
The dangers that face the world can, every one of them, be traced back to science. The salvations that may save the world will, every… — Isaac Asimov
The divisions of science are not like different lines that meet in one angle, but rather like the branches of trees that join in one… — Francis Bacon
The extraordinary development of modern science may be her undoing. Specialism, now a necessity, has fragmented the specialities themselves in a way that makes the… — William Osler
The fact that Science walks forward on two feet, namely theory and experiment, is nowhere better illustrated than in the two fields for slight contributions… — Robert Andrews Millikan
The fact which interests us most is the life of the naturalist. The purest science is still biographical. Nothing will dignify and elevate science while… — Henry David Thoreau
The Good Spirit never cared for the colleges, and though all men and boys were now drilled in Greek, Latin, and Mathematics, it had quite… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greatest achievements in the science of this [twentieth] century are themselves the sources of more puzzlement than human beings have ever experienced. Indeed, it… — Lewis Thomas
The literature of science is filled with answers found when the question propounded had an entirely different direction and end. — John Steinbeck
The maxim of science is simply that of common sense-simple cases first; begin with seeing how the main force acts when there is as little… — Walter Bagehot
The most heated defenders of a science, who cannot endure the slightest sneer at it, are commonly those who have not made very much progress… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
The only hope [of science] ... is in genuine induction. — Francis Bacon
The real name for 'science' is magic. — Harlan Ellison
The reproaches against science for not having yet solved the problems of the universe are exaggerated in an unjust and malicious manner; it has truly… — Sigmund Freud
The science of the modern school ... is in effect ... the acquisition of imperfectly analyzed misstatements about entrails, elements, and electricity... — George Herbert
The sciences are found, like Hercules's oxen, by tracing them backward; and old sciences are unravelled like old stockings, by beginning at the foot. — Jonathan Swift
The sciences are of a sociable disposition, and flourish best in the neighborhood of each other; nor is there any branch of learning but may… — William Blackstone
The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where we least expect… — Tacitus

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