Comprehension Quote by Winston Churchill

With the aid of these active experimental sciences man becomes an inventor of phenomena, a real foreman of creation; and under this head we…

— Claude Bernard

The scientist is activated by a wonder and awe before the mysterious comprehensibility of the universe which is yet finally beyond his grasp. In…

— Albert Einstein

The birth of science rang the death-knell of an arbitrary and constantly interposing Supreme Power.

— Annie Besant

There seems to be one quality of mind which seems to be of special and extreme advantage in leading him to make discoveries. It…

— Francis Darwin

“Science gives man ever greater powers but less significance. It gives him better tools with less purposes. It is silent on origins, values, and…

— Will Durant

“He had a natural appetite for the wonders of the Universe. He wanted to know about science. It’s just that all the science had…

— Carl Sagan

By explanation the scientist understands nothing except the reduction to the least and simplest basic laws possible, beyond which he cannot go, but must…

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

“The key to the scientist's purpose is the idea that every phenomenon is the product of a certain given set of condition. In his…

— Gabriel Marcel

The greater the scientist, the more he is impressed with his ignorance of reality, and the more he realizes that his laws and labels,…

— Alan Watts

During the century after Newton, it was still possible for a man of unusual attainments to master all fields of scientific knowledge. But by…

— Isaac Asimov

The powers, aspirations, and mission of man are such as to raise the study of his origin and nature, inevitably and by the very…

— Richard Owen

Those of us engaged in the practice of science come to feel a certain reverence for it, engendered by its demonstrable power to dissect,…

— Carolyn Porco