Century Quote by Noam Chomsky

Science is intimately integrated with the whole social structure and cultural tradition. They mutually support one other-only in certain types of society can science…

— Talcott Parsons

Science is triumphant with far-ranging success, but its triumph is somehow clouded by growing difficulties in providing for the simple necessities of human life…

— Barry Commoner

“As long as the incomes of the various classes of contemporary society remain beyond the reach of scientific inquiry, there can be no hope…

— Thomas Piketty

Our emphasis on science has resulted in an alarming rise in world populations, the demand and ever-increasing emphasis of science to improve their standards…

— Charles Lindbergh

The fact which interests us most is the life of the naturalist. The purest science is still biographical. Nothing will dignify and elevate science…

— Henry David Thoreau

“In this setting modern modern science tends increasingly to become one of two things: either a high form of technology, often with a goal…

— Francis A. Schaeffer

The further human society drifts away from nature, the less we understand interdependence .

— Peter Senge

I do not believe that the present flowering of science is due in the least to a real appreciation of the beauty and intellectual…

— Derek Barton

Political Economy as a branch of science is extremely modern; but the subject with which its enquiries are conversant has in all ages necessarily…

— John Stuart Mill

... 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

The central difficulty lies in the fact that all of the sciences have made such great progress during the last century that they have…

— Anonymous

I believe that through its rational evaluation of truth and indifference to personal belief, science transcends religious and political divisions and so does bind…

— Brian Greene