Knowledge Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

“The history of science is the back-and-forth movement of trial-and-error advances and retreats, punctuated by moments of brilliance and marred by periods of excess.”

— Robert A. Burton

Science is our century's art.

— Horace Freeland Judson

I conceive that the leading characteristic of the nineteenth century has been the rapid growth of the scientific spirit, the consequent application of scientific…

— Thomas Huxley

“science at its best was a flower of Western culture, unbiased, apolitical, transnational, open, and progressive. It destroyed superstition and cant. It threw at…

— Thomas Hager

The nineteenth century will ever be known as the one in which the influences of science were first fully realised in civilised communities; the…

— Norman Lockyer

The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.

— Gertrude Stein

Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.

— Bertrand Russell

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

— Carl Sagan

“But that which fanaticism formerly promised to the elect, science now accomplishes for all men. ”

— Gustave Flaubert

“Science gives man ever greater powers but less significance. It gives him better tools with less purposes. It is silent on origins, values, and…

— Will Durant

“Science is the human endeavor to elevate the self and the society from the darkness of ignorance into the light of wisdom.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“Science strides ahead; politics stumbles around like a drunk. We saw it in the age of discovery and the age of empire, but it…

— Andrew Marr