Accounts Quote by Mark Twain

Scientific knowledge scarcely exists amongst the higher classes of society. The discussion in the Houses of Lords or of Commons, which arise on the…

— Charles Babbage

“Science is a cosy, friendly club of specialists who follow their numerous different stars; it is proud and wonderfully productive but never certain and…

— James Lovelock

Admittedly, scientific authority is not distributed evenly throughout the body of scientists; some distinguished members of the profession predominate over others of a more…

— Michael Polanyi

We live in the midst of the greatest scientific civilization in the history of the world. But the greatest wisdom walking our streets is…

— Norman Vincent Peale

The sciences, even the best,-mathematics and astronomy,-are like sportsmen, who seize whatever prey offers, even without being able to make any use of it.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the…

— Stephen Jay Gould

The field of scientific abstraction encompasses independent kingdoms of ideas and of experiments and within these, rulers whose fame outlasts the centuries. But they…

— Fritz Haber

In order that the relations between science and the age may be what they ought to be, the world at large must be made…

— William Jay Youmans

Science is the one culture that's truly global - protons, proteins and Pythagoras's Theorem are the same from China to Peru. It should transcend…

— Martin Rees

“The profane sciences of which the modern world is so proud are really and truly only the degenerate ‘residues’ of the ancient traditional sciences.”

— René Guénon

After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.

— Marie Curie

Scientists have power by virtue of the respect commanded by the discipline... We live with poets and politicians, preachers and philosophers. All have their…

— Stephen Jay Gould