Bourgeois Quote by Max Horkheimer

[I]t is necessary to insist upon this extraordinary but undeniable fact: experimental science has progressed thanks in great part to the work of men…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

Scientific men can hardly escape the charge of ignorance with regard to the precise effect of the impact of modern science upon the mode…

— Frederick Soddy

The popularisation of scientific doctrines is producing as great an alteration in the mental state of society as the material applications of science are…

— James Clerk Maxwell

Men of science have made abundant mistakes of every kind; their knowledge has improved only because of their gradual abandonment of ancient errors, poor…

— George Sarton

...learning chiefly in mathematical sciences can so swallow up and fix one's thought, as to possess it entirely for some time; but when that…

— Gilbert Burnet

“Real understanding of any scientific subject must include some knowledge of its historical growth; we cannot comprehend and accept modern concepts and theories without…

— Colin Cherry

nd now that man's history has been for the first time systematically considered as a whole, and has been found to be, like all…

— Auguste Comte

“And our resistance against changing our habits of thought is immense and unrelenting. If we try, briefly, we find it ass vexing and unrewarding…

— Sydney J. Harris

Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism . . . the great masters of the past boasted all they could…

— Ezra Pound

Armed with all the powers, enjoying all the wealth they owe to science, our societies are still trying to practice and to teach systems…

— Jacques Monod

As a scientist I must be mindful of the past; all too often it has happened that matters of great value to science were…

— J. Allen Hynek

The modern man, finding that Humanism and Sex both fail to satisfy, seeks his happiness in Science ... But Science fails too, for it…

— Fulton J. Sheen