Active Quote by Claude Bernard

Man can be scientifically manipulated.

— Bertrand Russell

[I]t is necessary to insist upon this extraordinary but undeniable fact: experimental science has progressed thanks in great part to the work of men…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His…

— Nikola Tesla

“Science gives man ever greater powers but less significance. It gives him better tools with less purposes. It is silent on origins, values, and…

— Will Durant

Science can give us power over nature, but it cannot give us power over human nature.

— Thomas Szasz

Science bestowed immense new powers on man, and at the same time, created conditions which were largely beyond his comprehension.

— Winston Churchill

“The science of man is the only solid foundation for the other sciences. [All the other sciences] have a relation, greater or lesser, to…

— David Hume

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

A scientist is as weak and human as any man, but the pursuit of science may ennoble him even against his will.

— Isaac Asimov

In teaching man, experimental science results in lessening his pride more and more by proving to him every day that primary causes, like the…

— Claude Bernard

The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His…

— Nikola Tesla

I firmly believe, that before many centuries more, science will be the master of man. The engines he will have invented will be beyond…

— Henry Adams