Advancement Quote by Paul Feyerabend

The separation of science and non-science is not only artificial but also detrimental to the advancement of knowledge. If we want to understand nature,…

— Paul Feyerabend

“Thus natural science is not a way of knowing the real world; its value lies not in its truth but in its utility; by…

— R.G. Collingwood

A scientific approach means knowing what one knows and what one doesn't. Absolute or complete knowledge is unscientific.

— Karl Jaspers

The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.

— Barry Commoner

Science has been effective at furthering our understanding of nature because the scientific ethos is based on three key principles: (1) follow the evidence…

— Lawrence M. Krauss

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

Indeed science alone may perhaps be sterile when pursued without an understanding of the world in which scientific knowledge is created and in which…

— Polykarp Kusch

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

— Ezra Pound

Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information; it is a creative human activity.

— Stephen Jay Gould

Even today few scientists and perhaps even fewer nonscientists realize that science is a method and nothing else.

— Carroll Quigley

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

Science is...a powerful way, indeed - to study the natural world. Science is not particularly effective...in making commentary about the supernatural world. Both worlds,…

— Francis Collins