Agriculture Quote by Frederick Seitz

We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

— Carl Sagan

Very few societies on Earth developed science as we know it today. On the other hand, the number is not zero - the Greeks,…

— Seth Shostak

Throughout history, people have studied pure science from a desire to understand the universe rather than practical applications for commercial gain. But their discoveries…

— Stephen Hawking

In the progressive growth of astronomy, physics or mechanical science was developed, and when this had been, to a certain degree, successfully cultivated, it…

— Anonymous

In creating the world, God used arithmetic, geometry, and likewise astronomy.

— Nicholas of Cusa

Science only means knowledge; and for [Greek] ancients it did only mean knowledge. Thus the favorite science of the Greeks was Astronomy, because it…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Astronomy is ... the only progressive Science which the ancient world produced.

— William Whewell

The time was not yet ripe for the growth of mathematical science among us, and any development that might have taken place in that…

— Simon Newcomb

The seventeenth century witnessed the birth of modern science as we know it today. This science was something new, based on a direct confrontation…

— I. Bernard Cohen

The end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century were remarkable for the small amount of scientific movement going on in…

— John Herschel

Modern science developed in the context of western religious thought, was nurtured in universities first established for religious reasons, and owes some of its…

— Kenneth R. Miller

In our civilization, there are permanent forms which are part of every epoch and every culture. They are not especially difficult to detect. A…

— Philippe Starck