Boxes Quote by H. L. Mencken

“Science has therefore been charged with undermining morality, but the charge is unjust. A man’s ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education,…

— Albert Einstein

Science without conscience is the soul's perdition.

— Francois Rabelais

Does not the discipline of the scientific spirit just commence when one no longer harbours any conviction?

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A tainted society has invented psychiatry to defend itself against the investigations of certain superior intellects whose faculties of divination would be troublesome.

— Antonin Artaud

The invocation of science, of its ground rules, of the exclusive validity of the methods that science has now completely become, now constitutes a…

— Theodor Adorno

“The strongest proof that in the name of “science” we pursue unworthy and sometimes even harmful things is the existence of a science of…

— Leo Tolstoy

Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human…

— Edgar Allan Poe

In no other field of scientific endeavor do otherwise intelligent people feel free to make public claims based on prejudice and ignorance. Yet in…

— Rupert Sheldrake

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

— Carl Sagan

Anxieties about ourselves endure. If our proper study is indeed the study of humankind, then it has seemed-and still seems-to many that the study…

— Philip Kitcher

Perversity is the human thirst for self-torture.

— Edgar Allan Poe

[There] are cases where there is no dishonesty involved but where people are tricked into false results by a lack of understanding about what…

— Irving Langmuir