Advantage Quote by Humphry Davy

The world is devoted to physical science, because it believes theses discoveries will increase its capacity of luxury and self-indulgence. But the pursuit of…

— Benjamin Disraeli

The development of science has produced an industrial revolution which has brought different peoples in such close contact with one another through colonization and…

— John Dewey

Science itself is badly in need of integration and unification. The tendency is more and more the other way ... Only the graduate student,…

— Isidor Isaac Rabi

The idea that science is just some luxury that you'll get around to if you can afford it is regressive to any future a…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Science is the one culture that's truly global - protons, proteins and Pythagoras's Theorem are the same from China to Peru. It should transcend…

— Martin Rees

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

Throughout history, people have studied pure science from a desire to understand the universe rather than practical applications for commercial gain. But their discoveries…

— Stephen Hawking

“The age of territory was driven by acquisition. Leaders of nations sought to increase their nation’s power by gaining territory—mostly through force. Accumulated military…

— Shimon Peres

The progress of science is much more muddled than is depicted in most history books. This is especially true of theoretical physics, partly because…

— David Gross

In the progressive growth of astronomy, physics or mechanical science was developed, and when this had been, to a certain degree, successfully cultivated, it…

— Anonymous

But science is the great instrument of social change, all the greater because its object is not change but knowledge, and its silent appropriation…

— Arthur Balfour

The triumph of science has been mainly due to its practical utility, and there has been an attempt to divorce this aspect from that…

— Bertrand Russell