Science Quote by Oliver Sacks

“Our cognitive sciences are themselves suffering from an agnosia essentially similar to Dr P.’s. Dr P. may therefore serve as a warning and parable—of…

— Oliver Sacks

“Pseudoscience speaks to powerful emotional needs that science often leaves unfulfilled. It caters to fantasies about personal powers we lack and long for.”

— Carl Sagan

“Science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value, elly judgments of all kinds remain necessary.”

— Albert Einstein

“Every serious scientific worker is painfully conscious of this involuntary relegation to an ever-narrowing sphere of knowledge, which is threatening to deprive the investigator…

— Albert Einstein The World As I See It

“science cannot even make probability judgements on”

— Richard Dawkins

“the rigorously impersonal view of science might one day appear as having been a temporarily useful eccentricity rather than the definitively triumphant position which…

— William James

Every judgment in science stands on the edge of error, and is personal.

— Jacob Bronowski

“By and large, people who choose to go into science are not greatly interested in psychological problems... He liked the exactness of science, and…

— Brenda Maddox

“Pseudoscience is embraced, it might be argued, in exact proportion as real science is misunderstood.”

— Carl Sagan

“Pseudoscience is embraced, it might be argued, in exact proportion as real science is misunderstood—except”

— Carl Sagan

“Science [is] that wonderfully convenient personification of the opinions, at a certain date, of Professors X, Y, and Z…”

— Aldous Huxley

I am optimistic when I consider the spiritual dimension which the scientist's discipline forces him to ignore.

— William Golding