Science Quote by William James

“Science is a cosy, friendly club of specialists who follow their numerous different stars; it is proud and wonderfully productive but never certain and…

— James Lovelock

“Science [is] that wonderfully convenient personification of the opinions, at a certain date, of Professors X, Y, and Z…”

— Aldous Huxley

“So much science has at its root the ability to see afresh what has been seen and thought to be understood for centuries.”

— Diane Setterfield

“Seldom – perhaps never – has science been driven forward more swiftly and successfully by animosity.”

— Bill Bryson

“Science is not separate from politics. As much as I would like it to be a pure thing, existing only in some intellectual realm…

— Marie Brennan

In science, moreover, the work of the individual is so bound up with that of his scientific predecessors and contemporaries that it appears almost…

— Albert Einstein

“Science is no inexorable march to truth, mediated by the collection of objective information and the destruction of ancient superstition. Scientists, as ordinary human…

— Stephen Jay Gould

“As a scientist, you must embrace the inconstancy of knowledge.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“The attitude which the man in the street unconsciously adopts towards science is capricious and varied. At one moment he scorns the scientist for…

— Percy Williams Bridgman

“The sciences paint an impersonal and objective account of the world, deliberately devoid of "meaning", telling us about origins and mechanics of life, by…

— John Barrow

Note, to-day, an instructive, curious spectacle and conflict. Science, (twin, in its fields, of Democracy in its)—Science, testing absolutely all thoughts, all works, has…

— Walt Whitman

“I come from a religious tradition where we make a blessing over great scientists regardless of their views on religion.”

— Jonathan Sacks