Disadvantages Quote by Henry David Thoreau

Science should leave off making pronouncements: the river of knowledge has too often turned back on itself.

— James Jeans

When science has sent forth her fiat - it is only to hear and obey.

— Jules Verne

Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.

— Thomas Huxley

Science appears but what in truth she is, Not as our glory and our absolute boast, But as a succedaneum, and a prop To…

— William Wordsworth

Science as such assuredly has no authority, for she can only say what is, not what is not.

— William James

If we would serve science, we must extend her limits, not only as far as our own knowledge is concerned, but in the estimation…

— Rudolf Virchow

“...science, to quote your own words, is nothing else than a 'strange hankering after differences'. Her essence could not be better defined. For men…

— Hermann Hesse

Indeed, while Nature is wonderfully inventive of new structures, her conservatism in holding on to old ones is still more remarkable. In the ascending…

— John M. Tyler

Science frees us in many ways...from the bodily terror which the savage feels. But she replaces that, in the minds of many, by a…

— Charles Kingsley

“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

The future belongs to Science. More and more she will control the destinies of the nations. Already she has them in her crucible and…

— William Osler

We who cherish science should be careful to distinguish when we are doing science and when we are extrapolating from it

— Michael Ruse