Accounts Quote by George Herbert

Science brings to the light of day everything man had believed sacred. Technique takes possession of it and enslaves it.

— Jacques Ellul

“What is there in the precepts of science that keeps a scientist from doing evil?”

— Carl Sagan

“By relegating the things we fear and don't understand to religion, and the things we understand and control to science, we rob science of…

— Maggie Stiefvater

“...people's enduring belief in conveniently invisible devils makes the work of science so much harder. It slaps a leash on progress and encourages backward…

— Jason Arnopp

“The way I see it, religion is no more inherently evil than science is. It’s just a matter of who’s using it and how.”

— Scott Meyer

“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 effort to put down Christian Science by law is one of the craziest enterprises upon which medical men waste their energies. It is…

— H.L. Mencken

“This is that moment in the hangover in which you discover that your keys are in your hat, the cat is in the sink,…

— Charles P. Pierce

“Moreover, man carries in his heart the desire always to wield his scientific knowledge in service of the greater good. He would of course…

— Anonymous

“Science cuts two ways, of course; its products can be used for both good and evil. But there's no turning back from science.”

— Carl Sagan

“Do you have anything—a cross, a bible?” I asked him. “Course not! I’m a man of science.” “And if the shadow that wields the…

— John C Wright

“Science seeks the truth. And it does not discriminate. For better or worse it finds things out. Science is humble. It knows what it…

— Donald R. Prothero