Atheism Quote by Margaret E. Knight

Scientific modes of thought cannot be developed and become generally accepted unless people renounce their primary, unreflecting, and spontaneous attempt to understand all their…

— Norbert Elias

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

Science had better not free the minds of men too much, before it has tamed their instincts.

— Jean Rostand

I think men of science as well as other men need to learn from Christ, and I think Christians whose minds are scientific are…

— James Clerk Maxwell

Science brings to the light of day everything man had believed sacred. Technique takes possession of it and enslaves it.

— Jacques Ellul

Man is an animal with primary instincts of survival. Consequently his ingenuity has developed first and his soul afterwards. The progress of science is…

— Charlie Chaplin

It is necessary to guard ourselves from thinking that the practice of the scientific method enlarges the powers of the human mind. Nothing is…

— Wilfred Trotter

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

“The more man understands and masters nature the less he needs to use religion as a scientific explanation and as a magical device for…

— Erich Fromm

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

Mankind will possess incalculable advantages and extraordinary control over human behavior when the scientific investigator will be able to subject his fellow men to…

— Ivan Pavlov

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero