Accounts Quote by Rachel Carson

“The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography or history...…

— Rachel Carson

The aim of science is to make difficult things understandable in a simpler way; the aim of poetry is to state simple things in…

— Anonymous

The aim of science is, on the one hand, as complete a comprehension as possible of the connection between perceptible experiences in their totality,…

— Albert Einstein

Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.

— Paul Valery

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. Its goal is to find out how the world…

— Carl Sagan

The aim of science is not things themselves, as the dogmatists in their simplicity imagine, but the relation between things.

— Henri Poincare

All science has one aim, namely, to find a theory of nature.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

To me, science is an expression of the human spirit, which reaches every sphere of human culture. It gives an aim and meaning to…

— Isidor Isaac Rabi

[The aim of science is] to explain what so far has taken to be an explicans, such as a law of nature. The task…

— Karl Popper

The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanation of complex facts... Seek simplicity and distrust it.

— Alfred North Whitehead

[Science is] the literature of truth.

— Josh Billings

Science is like literature, a continuing dialog among diverse and conflicting voices, no one ever wholly right or wholly wrong, but a steady conversation…

— Gregory Benford