Controversy Quote by Lyman Beecher

No great advance has been made in science, politics, or religion without controversy.

— Lyman Beecher

Science never makes an advance until philosophy authorizes it to do so.

— Thomas E. Mann

There were certain questions about the foundations of morals that advances in science all threaten to make more complicated.

— Leon Kass

“Science is generated by and devoted to free inquiry: the idea that any hypothesis, no matter how strange, deserves to be considered on its…

— Carl Sagan

Nothing is so dangerous to the progress of the human mind than to assume that our views of science are ultimate, that there are…

— Humphry Davy

Science is paramount, but presents no challenge to a creed that rests on faith-based belief.

— Joseph Silk

... scientists have made no clear effort to become an important, independently active force of mankind. Whole congresses at a time, they back away…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Science is as yet in its infancy, and we can foretell little of the future save that the thing that has not been is…

— John B. S. Haldane

While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or…

— John Adams

The great advances in science usually result from new tools rather than from new doctrines.

— Freeman Dyson

This [the intelligent design movement] isn't really, and never has been, a debate about science, it's about religion and philosophy.

— Phillip E. Johnson

Science has not been successful by making up explanations of things that fit with the current social fabric.

— Kary Mullis