Accounts Quote by Lewis Thomas

Ambiguity is very interesting in writing; it's not very interesting in science.

— Janna Levin

“Science has its place in man’s search for understanding, but science and the imagination have tended to bifurcate in the modern world; only the…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“While science can be many things, above all it is a way for our mistake-making, illusion-prone, storytelling brains to compare different methods for describing…

— Mike McRae

“Science of the kind I criticize tends to assert that everything is explicable, that whatever has not been explained will be explained--and, furthermore, by…

— Marilynne Robinson

“I believe that this example demonstrates how great science and great poetry are both visionary, and may even arrive at the same intuitions. Our…

— Carlo Rovelli

Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding...

— Brian Greene

“natural science is likely to be soon exhausted. Passing by many particulars of the discipline”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Science requires speculation, creativity, and wild ideas.

— Debra Fischer

Science...is part and parcel of our knowledge and obscures our insight only when it holds that the understanding given by it is the only…

— Carl Jung

Science is about unravelling nature.

— N. R. Narayana Murthy

Science is like a love affair with nature; an elusive, tantalising mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists and turns of romantic love, but…

— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

[Science is] an imaginative adventure of the mind seeking truth in a world of mystery.

— Cyril Norman Hinshelwood