Among Quote by Seth Shostak

Just after World War II, this country led the world in science by every way you could measure it, yet the number of scientists…

— James Lovelock

If science has a lot to do with what works, then clearly there's much about today's social and economic setup that isn't scientific, because…

— Jacque Fresco

The 'size' of science has doubled steadily every 15 years. In a century this means a factor of 100. For every single scientific paper…

— John Ziman

The seventeenth century witnessed the birth of modern science as we know it today. This science was something new, based on a direct confrontation…

— I. Bernard Cohen

Science is not something that exists apart from human beings. It's one of the things we do as human beings, and we always have…

— Margaret Atwood

In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2,000 previous years and given mankind greater powers over the forces of…

— John Boyd Orr

One could count on one's fingers the number of scientists throughout the world with a general idea of the history and development of their…

— Simone Weil

Essentially all civilizations that rose to the level of possessing an urban culture had need for two forms of science-related technology, namely, mathematics for…

— Frederick Seitz

It is childish to assume that science began in Greece; the Greek "miracle" was prepared by millenia of work in Egypt, Mesopotamia and possibly…

— George Sarton

The most remarkable discovery made by scientists is science itself. The discovery must be compared in importance with the invention of cave-painting and of…

— Jacob Bronowski

Science is the most exciting and sustained enterprise of discovery in the history of our species. It is the great adventure of our time.…

— Michael Crichton

We live in a scientific age, yet we assume that knowledge of science is the prerogative of only a small number of human beings,…

— Rachel Carson