Barmaids Quote by Ernest Rutherford

A scientifically unimportant discovery is one which, however true and however interesting for other reasons, has no consequences for a system of theory with…

— Talcott Parsons

Scientific criticism has no nobler task than to shatter false beliefs.

— Ludwig von Mises

Science as such assuredly has no authority, for she can only say what is, not what is not.

— William James

Scientific discovery is not valuable unless it has commercial value.

— John A. McDougall

Science has not been successful by making up explanations of things that fit with the current social fabric.

— Kary Mullis

A discovery is generally an unforeseen relation not included in theory.

— Claude Bernard

There cannot be any impediment to science that will ultimately be good to the general public.

— Anonymous

Science has been seriously retarded by the study of what is not worth knowing and of what is not knowable.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose whatsoever in…

— Max Planck

Nothing in science has any value if it is not communicated.

— Anne Roe

There are no limits to what science can explore.

— Ernest Solvay

To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery.

— Abraham Pais