Nature Quote by Gabrielle Palmer

“natural science is likely to be soon exhausted. Passing by many particulars of the discipline”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Natural science is either the description of forms (morphology) or the explanation of changes (etiology). Neither can afford us the information we chiefly desire.”

— Anonymous

The history of science is the saga of nature defying common sense.

— Kedar Joshi

“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

“science, which can make known only the interrelations of things, but never their origin, essence and end, will never be able to satisfy the…

— Herman Bavinck

“Science is no inexorable march to truth, mediated by the collection of objective information and the destruction of ancient superstition. Scientists, as ordinary human…

— Stephen Jay Gould

“…nature as a whole was an exceptionally fine illustration of science.”

— Yann Martel

“Unchecked, science and monotheism both mean to vanquish nature.”

— Christopher Potter

“…once science had declared a thing possible, there was no escape from its eventual realization…”

— Arthur C. Clarke

“More than ever before, it was assumed that the methods of natural science could be—and should be—used to understand and solve the problems facing…

— Laura J. Snyder

“[...] science carries us towards an understanding of how the world is, rather than how we would wish it to be [...]”

— Carl Sagan

“There is a Divine Providence operating over and above the materialistic happenings of biological evolution.”

— John C. Eccles