Acquaintance Quote by Charles Babbage

The knowledge and understanding of the world which science gives us and the magnificent opportunity which it extends to us to control and use…

— Polykarp Kusch

My scientific work is motivated by an irresistible longing to understand the secrets of nature and by no other feeling. My love for justice…

— Albert Einstein

Part of the strength of science is that it has tended to attract individuals who love knowledge and the creation of it.

— Phillip Hauge Abelson

I do not believe that the present flowering of science is due in the least to a real appreciation of the beauty and intellectual…

— Derek Barton

The greatest benefit derived from the study of science is that it lifts you out of and above the littleness of daily trials. We…

— Maria Mitchell

Science gives you an understanding of the physical world, and it increases the capacity for fascination.

— Reggie Watts

If any human being earnestly desire to push on to new discoveries instead of just retaining and using the old; to win victories over…

— Francis Bacon

For science is ... like virtue, its own exceeding great reward.

— Charles Kingsley

It is the great beauty of our science, chemistry, that advancement in it, whether in a degree great or small, instead of exhausting the…

— Michael Faraday

“Science is a cosy, friendly club of specialists who follow their numerous different stars; it is proud and wonderfully productive but never certain and…

— James Lovelock

The love of science to rival the love of woman, in its depth and absorbing energy.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Honourable mention encourages science, and merit is fostered by praise.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero