All things Quote by Denis Diderot

I shall devote all my efforts to bring light into the immense obscurity that today reigns in Analysis. It so lacks any plan or…

— Niels Henrik Abel

It may indeed prove to be far the most difficult and not the least important task for human reason rationally to comprehend its own…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

“So long as we do not permit faith to override our rational powers we should use those talents to explore the frontiers which lie…

— Robert Christian

“The physical sciences, good and innocent in themselves, had already... begun to be warped, had been subtly manoeuvred in a certain direction. Despair of…

— C.S. Lewis

“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

“For over twenty-five centuries we’ve been bearing the weight of superb and heterogeneous civilizations, all from outside, none made by ourselves, none that we…

— Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

“If we wish to do justice to the historical enterprise, we must take past for what it was. And that means that we must…

— David C. Lindberg

Modern societies accepted the treasures and the power offered them by science. But they have not accepted - they have scarcely even heard -…

— Jacques Monod

I protest against deference to any man, whether John Stuart Mill, or Adam Smith, or Aristotle, being allowed to check inquiry. Our science has…

— William Stanley Jevons

Science remains the author of our major problem, in its gift of tremendous power that has been terribly abused; but for the wise use…

— Herbert J. Muller

The study of science, dissociated from that of philosophy and literature, narrows the mind and weakens the power to love and follow the noblest…

— John Lancaster Spalding

“Science, its imperfections notwithstanding, is the sword in the stone that humanity finally pulled. The question it poses, of universal and orderly materialism, is…

— Edward O. Wilson