Alchemist Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

“The scientific revolution was, in many ways, a by-product of mysticism and magic. In fact, once the tangled origins of modern science are unravelled,…

— John N. Gray

Science and mathematics [are] much more compelling and exciting than the doctrines of pseudoscience, whose practitioners were condemned as early as the fifth century…

— Carl Sagan

I believe that even a smattering of such findings in modern science and mathematics is far more compelling and exciting than most of the…

— Carl Sagan

It is not too much to say that next after the passion to learn there is no quality so indispensable to the successful prosecutionof…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

The great pagan world of which Egypt and Greece were the last living termsonce had a vast and perhaps perfect science of itsown, a…

— D. H. Lawrence

There is, in fact, no reason to believe that any given natural phenomenon, however marvelous it may seem today, will remain forever inexplicable. Soon…

— H. L. Mencken

Great scientific minds, from Claudius Ptolemy of the second century to Isaac Newton of the seventeenth, invested their formidable intellects in attempts to deduce…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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

— Ezra Pound

Lest we forget, the birth of modern physics and cosmology was achieved by Galileo, Kepler and Newton breaking free not from the close confining…

— David Bentley Hart

I thought religion would eventually wither away and we'd all be worshiping at the altar of science.

— A. J. Jacobs