Pursuit of knowledge Quote by Michael Innes

“Science is not separate from politics. As much as I would like it to be a pure thing, existing only in some intellectual realm…

— Marie Brennan

“Political and economic considerations exert pressure on science to answer strictly practical, immediate problems––in some cases by directed funding, in other coercive ways by…

— Kane X. Faucher

Science is the disinterested search for the objective truth about the material world.

— Richard Dawkins

Science is not marginal. Like art, it is a universal possession of humanity, and scientific knowledge has become a vital part of our species'…

— E. O. Wilson

Given the power and influence that science increasingly has in our daily lives, it is important that we as citizens of an open and…

— Massimo Pigliucci

“Science is unable to set its own priorities. It is also incapable of determining what to do with its discoveries.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“In a technological world facing many global problems, everyone needs to have a basic understanding of science. And knowing where we came from and…

— Wyken Seagrave

Scientific knowledge is, by its nature, provisional. This is due to the fact that as time goes on, with the invention of better instruments,…

— Priyamvada Natarajan

“Often known science will revolt against unknown science”

— Tirumala

Science?is so greatly opposed to history and tradition that it cannot be absorbed by our civilization.

— Max Born

It is chiefly upon the lay citizen, informed about science but not its practitioner, that the country must depend in determining the use to…

— David Lilienthal

In essence, science is a perpetual search for an intelligent and integrated comprehension of the world we live in.

— C. B. van Niel