Accounts Quote by Edmund Burke

Nothing tends so much to the corruption of science as to suffer it to stagnate; these waters must be troubled before they can exert…

— Edmund Burke

Our science, so called, is always more barren and mixed with error than our sympathies.

— Henry David Thoreau

Science now finds itself in paradoxical strife with society: admired but mistrusted; offering hope for the future but creating ambiguous choice; richly supported yet…

— J. Michael Bishop

It's as if scientists exert every effort of will they possess deliberately to find the least significant problems in the world and explain them.…

— Stephen Fry

“The method of science, as stodgy and grumpy as it may seem, is far more important than the findings of science.”

— Carl Sagan

“We have known for a long time that the pantheon of science is decorated with failure. Failures are the moving force in science: they…

— Joseph Jebelli

Science is triumphant with far-ranging success, but its triumph is somehow clouded by growing difficulties in providing for the simple necessities of human life…

— Barry Commoner

“Science, great, mighty and in the end unerring, science has fallen into many errors - errors which have been fortunate and useful rather than…

— Jules Verne

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 technological perils that science serves up, its implicit challenge to received wisdom, and its perceived difficulty, are all reasons for some people to…

— Carl Sagan

Science is as corruptible a human activity as any other.

— Michael Crichton

Science will stagnate if it is made to serve practical goals.

— Albert Einstein