Able Quote by Ivan Pavlov

Man is an animal with primary instincts of survival. Consequently his ingenuity has developed first and his soul afterwards. The progress of science is…

— Charlie Chaplin

It will of course, be understood that directly or indirectly, soon or late, every advance in the sciences of human nature will contribute to…

— Edward Thorndike

The man of science, like the man of letters, is too apt to view mankind only in the abstract, selecting in his consideration only…

— James G. Frazer

The proper study of Mankind is Man.

— Alexander Pope

At a time when science plays such a powerful role in the life of society, when the destiny of the whole of mankind may…

— Joseph Rotblat

In coming closer to nature, man shows himself superior to it. As a mere part of nature, man's existence would be a series of…

— Rudolf Christoph Eucken

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before…

— Albert Einstein

Man can be scientifically manipulated.

— Bertrand Russell

“The science of man is the only solid foundation for the other sciences. [All the other sciences] have a relation, greater or lesser, to…

— David Hume

It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.

— Frederick the Great

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

— Irving Langmuir

In recent times, modern science has developed to give mankind, for the first time in the history of the human race, a way of…

— Karl Taylor Compton