Books Quote by John Lancaster Spalding

“Science itself, no matter whether it is the search for truth or merely the need to gain control over the external world, to alleviate…

— Louis de Broglie

Science which is acquired unwillingly, soon disappears; that which is instilled into the mind in a pleasant and agreeable manner, is more lasting.

— Saint Basil

[Science] must be amoral by its very nature: The minute it begins separating facts into the two categories of good ones and bad ones…

— H. L. Mencken

In vain do science and philosophy pose as the arbiters of the human mind, of which they are in fact only the servants. Religion…

— Leo Tolstoy

Science condemns itself to failure when, yielding to the infatuation of the serious, it aspires to attain being, to contain it, and to possess…

— Simone de Beauvoir

Science is the search for truth, that is the effort to understand the world: it involves the rejection of bias, of dogma, of revelation,…

— Linus Pauling

Science without respect for human life is degrading to us all and reflects a hollow and deceptive philosophy, a philosophy that we as a…

— Nathan Deal

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

“Science is the human endeavor to elevate the self and the society from the darkness of ignorance into the light of wisdom.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“science, which can make known only the interrelations of things, but never their origin, essence and end, will never be able to satisfy the…

— Herman Bavinck

True science is distinctively the study of useless things. For the useful things will get studied without the aid of scientific men. To employ…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

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

— Ezra Pound