Accounts Quote by George Herbert

“The landed classes neglected technical education, taking refuge in classical studies; as late as 1930, for example, long after Ernest Rutherford at Cambridge had…

— Richard Rhodes

We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great…

— Woodrow Wilson

For the educated, the authority of science rested on the strictness of its methods; for the mass, it rested on the powers of explanation.

— Jacques Barzun

“I started out studying literature, but soon discovered that science was where I actually belonged. The contrast made it all the clearer: in science…

— Hope Jahren

“School is disappointing. If science is exciting and art is exhilarating, the schools and universities have achieved the not inconsiderable feat of rendering both…

— Walker Percy

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

It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that some portion of the neglect of science in England, may be attributed to the system of…

— Charles Babbage

Current education in science treats all students as if they were going to have scientific careers. They are required to solve problems and memorize…

— Philip Kitcher

I don't recall any interest in science in particular. It came later in college.

— Ellen Ochoa

This was what the universities were turning out nowadays. The science-is-a-sacred-cow boys. People who believe you could pour mankind into a test-tube and titrate…

— Frank M. Robinson

... a science must deal with a subject and its properties.

— Aristotle

Science ... must be absorbed in order to inculcate that wonderful humility before the facts of nature that comes from close attention to a…

— Anthony Standen