Discipline Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Science is a wonderful discipline, to which we are deeply indebted.

— Ray Comfort

“It was perhaps inevitable that a reverence for all things ‘scientific’ should be accompanied by some scorn for ‘natural’ processes.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Unless social sciences can be as creative as natural science, our new tools are not likely to be of much use to us.”

— Edgar Douglas Adrian

“Natural science is either the description of forms (morphology) or the explanation of changes (etiology). Neither can afford us the information we chiefly desire.”

— Anonymous

“More than ever before, it was assumed that the methods of natural science could be—and should be—used to understand and solve the problems facing…

— Laura J. Snyder

“Nothing is so fatal to the progress of the human mind as to suppose our views of science are ultimate; that there are no…

— Humphrey Davy

“Science is the most effective, efficient and magnificent path that leads towards the salvation of humankind.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“[...] science carries us towards an understanding of how the world is, rather than how we would wish it to be [...]”

— Carl Sagan

“Philosophy limits the disputable sphere of natural science.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Science is an ongoing process. It never ends. There is no single ultimate truth to be achieved, after which all the scientists can retire.…

— Carl Sagan

“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 science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last…

— Max Gluckman