Ancient Quote by Patience Strong

Every fact of science was once Damned. Every invention was considered impossible. Every discovery was a nervous shock to some orthodoxy. Every artistic innovation…

— Robert Anton Wilson

Some things mankind can finish and be done with, but not ... science, that persists, and changes from ancient Chaldeans studying the stars to…

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

“Modern scientific accomplishments" --a wealth of methods coupled with a poverty of intentions which, having nearly exhausted the hell-potential of the earth, move on…

— Kenneth Patchen

“To effectively contain a civilization’s development and disarm it across such a long span of time, there is only one way: kill its science.”…

— Liu Cixin

“Oh! science! It has reconsidered everything. For thebody and the soul − the viaticum − we now have medicineand philosophy, old wives’ remedies and…

— Arthur Rimbaud

Note, to-day, an instructive, curious spectacle and conflict. Science, (twin, in its fields, of Democracy in its)—Science, testing absolutely all thoughts, all works, has…

— Walt Whitman

Astronomy is ... the only progressive Science which the ancient world produced.

— William Whewell

Science is now the craft of the manipulation, substitution and deflection of the forces of nature. What I see coming is a gigantic slaughterhouse,…

— Erwin Chargaff

What is needed in the present plight of mankind is not more science but a change of heart that shall move mankind to devote…

— Ralph Barton Perry

Science is a field which grows continuously with ever expanding frontiers.

— John Bardeen

[In] the realm of science, ... what we have achieved will be obsolete in ten, twenty or fifty years. That is the fate, indeed,…

— Max Weber

“It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without…

— Isaac Asimov