Accounts Quote by Henry David Thoreau

Science ... has no consideration for ultimate purposes, any more than Nature has, but just as the latter occasionally achieves things of the greatest…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

And Botany I rank with the most valuable sciences, whether we consider its subjects as furnishing the principal subsistence of life to man and…

— Thomas Jefferson

Science is the greatest creative impulse of our time. It dominates the intellectual scene and forms our lives, not only in the material things…

— Polykarp Kusch

“Science does not stand as a moral guardian of humanity, rather it attempts to stand as the least subjective, least biased and least sociologically…

— Abhijit Naskar

History proves abundantly that pure science, undertaken without regard to applications to human needs, is usually ultimately of direct benefit to mankind.

— Irving Langmuir

Science, as long as it limits itself to the descriptive study of the laws of nature, has no moral or ethical quality and this…

— Ernst Boris Chain

“natural science is likely to be soon exhausted. Passing by many particulars of the discipline”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The modern naturalist must realize that in some of its branches his profession, while more than ever a science, has also become an art.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Science is the most exciting and sustained enterprise of discovery in the history of our species. It is the great adventure of our time.…

— Michael Crichton

It is not clear to anyone, least of all the practitioners, how science and technology in their headlong course do or should influence ethics…

— Jacques Barzun

Science enhances the moral value of life, because it furthers a love of truth and reverence-love of truth displaying itself in the constant endeavor…

— Max Planck

In nature, when you conduct science, it is the natural world that is the ultimate decider in what is true and what is not.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson