Character Quote by Jean Paul

Science corrects the old creeds, sweeps away, with every new perception, our infantile catechisms, and necessitates a faith commensurate with the grander orbits and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The historian of science may be tempted to exclaim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them.

— Thomas Kuhn

It was funny how the old practices always came around again. It was the rhythm of human enterprise to invent and worship some new…

— Ann Brashares

We cannot but think there is something like a fallacy in Mr. Buckle's theory that the advance of mankind is necessarily in the direction…

— James Russell Lowell

Our western science is a child of moral virtues; and it must now become the father of further moral virtues if its extraordinary material…

— Arnold J. Toynbee

Moving forward in science is as much unwinding the distorted thinking of the past as it is putting a clearer idea on the table.

— Craig Venter

But the imposition of morality onto science, - where it does not belong - has become rampant in recent years.

— Bill Condon

Modern societies accepted the treasures and the power offered them by science. But they have not accepted - they have scarcely even heard -…

— Jacques Monod

Science in itself is morally neutral; it becomes good or evil according as it is applied.

— Aldous Huxley

The great advances in science usually result from new tools rather than from new doctrines.

— Freeman Dyson

“Science progresses. Ideology tends to linger unchanged, and often unquestioned.”

— Massimo Pigliucci

Perhaps the only thing that saves science from invalid conventional wisdom that becomes effectively permanent is the presence of mavericks in every generation -…

— David M. Raup