Accounts Quote by Linus Pauling

The increase of scientific knowledge lies not only in the occasional milestones of science, but in the efforts of the very large body of…

— Polykarp Kusch

The evil effect of science upon men is principally this, that by far the greatest number of those who wish to display a knowledge…

— Immanuel Kant

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

Men, forever tempted to lift the veil of the future-with the aid of computers or horoscopes or the intestines of sacrificial animals-have a worse…

— Hannah Arendt

It is given to few to add the store of knowledge, to strike new springs of thought, or to shape new forms of beauty.…

— Thomas Huxley

I believe that the quantum of our knowledge will increase considerably in the coming years and that scientists will continue to be amongst the…

— Peter Garrett

No man of science wants merely to know. He acquires knowledge to appease his passion for discovery. He does not discover in order to…

— Alfred North Whitehead

“In the new century science will defeat famine, boredom, and the plague, but . . . vital knowledge will become so elevated that nobody…

— Mark Christensen

“When enter the whole new world, men will deal with new science. To embrace a new science, men need to get used to new…

— Toba Beta

All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.

— Charles Henry Parkhurst

If men could foresee the future, they would still behave as they do now.

— Russian Proverb

It is possible that a scientific discovery will be made that humans will later regret because it has awful consequences. The problem is, we…

— Paul Davies