Force Quote by Ludwig Buchner

Metaphysical ghosts cannot be killed, because they cannot be touched; but they may be dispelled by dispelling the twilight in which shadows and solidities…

— George Henry Lewes

“The Historian and the Man of Science alike may be said to traffic with the dead. Cuvier has imparted flesh and motion and appetites…

— A.S. Byatt

We are certainly not to relinquish the evidence of experiments for the sake of dreams and vain fictions of our own devising; nor are…

— Isaac Newton

Forces of nature act in a mysterious manner. We can but solve the mystery by deducing the unknown result from the known results of…

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Science advances one funeral at a time. Only when one generation passes away do new theories have a chance to root out old ones.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“That we are rational agents—that a great many of our actions are not merely the results of serial physiological urges but are instead dictated…

— David Bentley Hart

Good tests kill flawed theories; we remain alive to guess again.

— Karl Popper

The numinous depth of the mystery that seems to have called us out of the animal mind is completely impenetrable to modern analysis.

— Terence McKenna

As long as we do science, some things will always remain unexplained.

— Fritjof Capra

If it is a terrifying thought that life is at the mercy of the multiplication of these minute bodies [microbes], it is a consoling…

— Louis Pasteur

Science has, after all, made some colossal blunders in the past... Our current materialism and its rejection of the idea of a spirit or…

— Susan Blackmore

The mystery is in the body and the way the body works itself into nature.

— Terence McKenna