Application Quote by Derek Barton

Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism . . . the great masters of the past boasted all they could…

— Ezra Pound

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

The most obvious characteristic of science is its application: the fact that, as a consequence of science, one has a power to do things.…

— Richard P. Feynman

Science has helped us to understand and master ourselves, creating an elevated new form of human life, the wealth and beauty of which cannot…

— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

[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

I shall devote only a few lines to the expression of my belief in the importance of science … it is by this daily…

— Marie Curie

Gradually, ... the aspect of science as knowledge is being thrust into the background by the aspect of science as the power of manipulating…

— Bertrand Russell

I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also…

— Marie Curie

Science is the greatest creative impulse of our time. It dominates the intellectual scene and forms our lives, not only in the material things…

— Polykarp Kusch

I believe that science is the engine of prosperity, that if you look around at the wealth of civilization today, it's the wealth that…

— Michio Kaku

The world is devoted to physical science, because it believes theses discoveries will increase its capacity of luxury and self-indulgence. But the pursuit of…

— Benjamin Disraeli

Science is competitive, aggressive, demanding. It is also imaginative, inspiring, uplifting.

— Vera Rubin