Science Quote by David Van Reybrouck

“In the past, pure scientists took a snobbish view of business. They saw the pursuit of money as intellectually uninteresting, suited only to shopkeepers.…

— Michael Crichton

“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 rigorously impersonal view of science might one day appear as having been a temporarily useful eccentricity rather than the definitively triumphant position which…

— William James

“Every scientist should, after all, regard it as his duty to tell the public, in a generally intelligible way, about what he is doing”

— Konrad Lorenz

“scientists rush to publish in order to gain the benefits associated with being the first to have made a particular advancement.”

— Eric von Hippel

“Science is no inexorable march to truth, mediated by the collection of objective information and the destruction of ancient superstition. Scientists, as ordinary human…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Scientists tend to be unappreciated in the world at large, but you can hardly overstate the importance of the work they do.

— Bill Bryson

“science at its best was a flower of Western culture, unbiased, apolitical, transnational, open, and progressive. It destroyed superstition and cant. It threw at…

— Thomas Hager

“Science does not stand as a moral guardian of humanity, rather it attempts to stand as the least subjective, least biased and least sociologically…

— Abhijit Naskar