Accounts Quote by George Herbert

If, on occasion, the knowledge brought by science leads to an unhappy end, this is not to the discredit of science but is rather…

— Polykarp Kusch

Modern societies accepted the treasures and the power offered them by science. But they have not accepted - they have scarcely even heard -…

— Jacques Monod

“She who believes that science will inescapably solve humanity’s oldest problems and radically change the human lot in this world is the one who…

— Giannis Delimitsos

“For the admirable gift of himself, and for the magnificent service he renders humanity, what reward does our society offer the scientist? Have these…

— Marie Curie

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

— Ezra Pound

For science is ... like virtue, its own exceeding great reward.

— Charles Kingsley

The products of modern science are not in themselves good or bad; it is the way they are used that determines their value.

— Marshall McLuhan

In order that the relations between science and the age may be what they ought to be, the world at large must be made…

— William Jay Youmans

Modern science, then, so far from being an enemy of romance, is seen on every hand to be its sympathetic and resourceful friend, its…

— Richard Le Gallienne

I do not believe that the present flowering of science is due in the least to a real appreciation of the beauty and intellectual…

— Derek Barton

A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last…

— Max Gluckman

Science now finds itself in paradoxical strife with society: admired but mistrusted; offering hope for the future but creating ambiguous choice; richly supported yet…

— J. Michael Bishop