Accounts Quote by Edward Victor Appleton

Science never makes things that do not have to do with what we feel, by which I mean what we want and what we…

— Margaret Atwood

Nuclear physics is interesting but it is unlikely to help society.

— John Cameron

Without science, there would be no such hope.

— Kay Redfield Jamison

The idea of atomic energy is illusionary but it has taken so powerful a hold on the minds, that although I have preached against…

— Nikola Tesla

We have genuflected before the god of science only to find that it has given us the atomic bomb, producing fears and anxieties that…

— Anonymous

Science is the refusal to believe on the basis of hope.

— Anonymous

For the essence of science, I would suggest, is simply the refusal to believe on the basis of hope.

— Barrington Moore Jr

Since I do not forsee that atomic energy is to be a great boon for a long time, I have to say that for…

— Albert Einstein

“None of the people have any real interest in a science, who only begin to be enthusiastic about it when they themselves have made…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves.

— John Charles Polanyi

So many of us choose our path out of fear disguised as practicality. What we really want seems impossibly out of reach and ridiculous…

— Jim Carrey

No great advance has been made in science, politics, or religion without controversy.

— Lyman Beecher