Accounts Quote by Jean Rostand

Science is a way of life which can only flourish when men are free to have faith.

— Norbert Wiener

One of the best ways to improve men's behaviour is to enlighten their minds: and today, against the strong opposition of the Church and…

— Margaret E. Knight

Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.

— Jean Rostand

We all need permission to do science, but for reasons that are deeply ingrained in history, this permission is more often given to men…

— Vera Rubin

I am compelled to fear that science will be used to promote the power of dominant groups rather than to make men happy.

— Bertrand Russell

For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize... They were pursuing science in order…

— Aristotle

Brutes by their natural instinct have produced many discoveries, whereas men by discussion and the conclusions of reason have given birth to few or…

— Francis Bacon

Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism . . . the great masters of the past boasted all they could…

— Ezra Pound

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Science is the best idea humans have ever had. The more people who embrace that idea, the better.

— Bill Nye

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

Scientific men can hardly escape the charge of ignorance with regard to the precise effect of the impact of modern science upon the mode…

— Frederick Soddy