Flattered Quote by Julian Barnes

“What was the point of scientific advance without moral advance? The railway would merely permit more people to move about, meet and be stupid…

— Julian Barnes

Modern science has been a voyage into the unknown, with a lesson in humility waiting at every stop. Many passengers would rather have stayed…

— Carl Sagan

The greater the scientific advance, the more primitive the fear.

— Don DeLillo

I felt strongly that since the pursuit of good science was so difficult it was essential that the problem being studied was an important…

— Paul Nurse

[I]t is necessary to insist upon this extraordinary but undeniable fact: experimental science has progressed thanks in great part to the work of men…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

Throughout history, people have studied pure science from a desire to understand the universe rather than practical applications for commercial gain. But their discoveries…

— Stephen Hawking

The negative cautions of science are never popular. If the experimentalist would not commit himself, the social philosopher, the preacher, and the pedagogue tried…

— Margaret Mead

The fact that Science walks forward on two feet, namely theory and experiment, is nowhere better illustrated than in the two fields for slight…

— Robert Andrews Millikan

“science at its best was a flower of Western culture, unbiased, apolitical, transnational, open, and progressive. It destroyed superstition and cant. It threw at…

— Thomas Hager

“However, the Scientific Revolution freed humankind from this conviction. The greatest scientific discovery was the discovery of ignorance. Once humans realised how little they…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Science, as illustrated by the printing press, the telegraph, the railway, is a double-edged sword. At the same moment that it puts an enormous…

— Richard Jefferies

But though the professed aim of all scientific work is to unravel the secrets of nature, it has another effect, not less valuable, on…

— James Clerk Maxwell