Life Quote by John Barrow

“Science is an organized pursuit of triviality. Art is a casual pursuit of significance. Let's keep it in perspective.”

— Vera Nazarian

“Science is a cosy, friendly club of specialists who follow their numerous different stars; it is proud and wonderfully productive but never certain and…

— James Lovelock

“the rigorously impersonal view of science might one day appear as having been a temporarily useful eccentricity rather than the definitively triumphant position which…

— William James

“The profane sciences of which the modern world is so proud are really and truly only the degenerate ‘residues’ of the ancient traditional sciences.”

— René Guénon

“[...] science carries us towards an understanding of how the world is, rather than how we would wish it to be [...]”

— Carl Sagan

“A truly scientific philosophy will be more humble, more piecemeal, more arduous, offering less glitter of outward mirage to flatter fallacious hopes, but more…

— Bertrand Russell

“Science…means unresting endeavor and continually progressing development toward an aim which the poetic intuition may apprehend, but the intellect can never fully grasp.”

— Max Planck

“We give the name scientist to the type of man who has felt experiment to be a means guiding him to search out the…

— Maria Montessori

“At heart, science is the quest for awesome - the literal awe that you feel when you understand something profound for the first time.…

— Sean Carroll

The knowledge and understanding of the world which science gives us and the magnificent opportunity which it extends to us to control and use…

— Polykarp Kusch

“Science is about reading the world from a gradually widening point of view.”

— Carlo Rovelli

“What are any of the disciplines but a way in which people trying to make sense of the world or the universe?”

— Joan Countryman