Accounts Quote by David Sarnoff

Scientists have power by virtue of the respect commanded by the discipline... We live with poets and politicians, preachers and philosophers. All have their…

— Stephen Jay Gould

“The motives behind scientism are culturally significant. They have been mixed, as usual: genuine curiosity in search of truth; the rage for certainty and…

— Jacques Barzun

The value of science to a republican people, the security it gives to liberty by enlightening the minds of its citizens, the protection it…

— Thomas Jefferson

Scientists ofttimes have the greatest faith in a higher power. The more they dig into, establish facts and figures, the more they marvel about…

— Malcolm Forbes

Through history, people look for something spiritual. The greatest scientists in the world were men of religion and faith, too.

— Kirstie Alley

Sciencehas won for us a great liberty in the physical world, a liberty from superstitious fear and from disease, a freedom touse nature as…

— Woodrow Wilson

Scientists are not the paragons of rationality, objectivity, openmindedness and humility that many of them might like others to believe.

— Marcello Truzzi

Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. It is the faith that it is the privilege of man to learn to understand, and…

— Vannevar Bush

“We repeat like a religious mantra the unquestioned benefits and power of science, information and economics, without inspecting the structures and methodology on which…

— David Suzuki

Society needs to see science not as a luxury of funding but as a fundamental activity that drives enlightenment, economics, and security.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

It is not clear to anyone, least of all the practitioners, how science and technology in their headlong course do or should influence ethics…

— Jacques Barzun

Those sciences which govern the morals of mankind, such as Theology and Philosophy, make everything their concern: no activity is so private or so…

— Michel de Montaigne