Aspect Quote by Paul McCartney

Our science is like a store filled with the most subtle intellectual devices for solving the most complex problems, and yet we are almost…

— Simone Weil

Because of their very nature, science and logical thinking can never decide what is possible or impossible. Their only function is to explain what…

— Rudolf Steiner

“Because science carries us toward an understanding of how the world is, rather than how we would wish it to be, its findings may…

— Carl Sagan

Trying to understand the way nature works involves a most terrible test of human reasoning ability. It involves subtle trickery, beautiful tightropes of logic…

— Richard P. Feynman

The body of science is not, as it is sometimes thought, a huge coherent mass of facts, neatly arranged in sequence, each one attached…

— Lewis Thomas

Modern physics has taught us that the nature of any system cannot be discovered by dividing it into its component parts and studying each…

— Max Planck

One of the first and most difficult steps in a science is to conceive clearly the nature of the magnitudes about which we are…

— William Stanley Jevons

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

— C. B. van Niel

If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world

— Vannevar Bush

I believe that not everything we humans encounter in our lives can be neatly and convincingly tucked away inside the orderly cabinetry of science.

— Mary Roach

Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.

— Thomas Huxley

“The logical feebleness of science is not sufficiently borne in mind. It keeps down the weed of superstition, not by logic but by slowly…

— John Tyndall