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Quote by George Bernard Shaw

“Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.”

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George Bernard Shaw (July 26, 1856 - November 2, 1950) was an Irish-British playwright, critic, and socialist. He is renowned for his satirical and witty dramatic works. more

“Science can give us only the tools in the box, these mechanical miracles that it has already given us. But of what use to us are miraculous tools until we have mastered the humane, cultural use of them? We do not want to live in a world where the machine has mastered the man; we want to live in a world where man has mastered the machine.”

Men World Want Giving Use Science Given He Man Tools Machines Accounts Miracle Boxes Miraculous Humane

Author:Frank Lloyd Wright

“Science cannot avert a single thunderbolt.”

Science Accounts Avert Thunderbolts

Book:Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism

Source: Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism

“Science cannot describe individuals, but only types. If human societies cannot be classified, they must remain inaccessible to scientific description.”

Ifs Humans Science Individual Society Type Accounts Description Human Society Inaccessible

Author:Emile Durkheim

“Science deals exclusively with things as they are in themselves.”

Science Deals

Book:The stones of Venice.-3 vol

Source: The stones of Venice.-3 vol

“Science does not have a moral dimension. It is like a knife. If you give it to a surgeon or a murderer, each will use it differently.”

Ifs Giving Doe Use Science Differences Moral Accounts Dimensions Knives Murderer Surgeons

Author:Wernher von Braun

“Science does not rest upon solid bedrock. The bold structure of its theories rises, as it were, above a swamp. It is like a building erected on piles. The piles are driven down from above into the swamp, but not down to any natural or 'given' base; and if we stop driving the piles deeper, it is not because we have reached firm ground. We simply stop when we are satisfied that the piles are firm enough to carry the structure, at least for the time being.”

Doe Enough Science Given Natural Building Theory Structure Deeper Driven Cease Satisfied Firm Layers Swamps Bedrock

Author:Karl Popper

“Science even more than the Gospel teaches us humility. She cannot look down on anything, she does not know what superiority means, she despises nothing, never lies for the sake of a pose, and conceals nothing out of coquetry. She stops before the facts as an investigator, sometimes as a physician, never as an executioner, and still less with hostility and irony.”

“Science goes from question to question; big questions, and little, tentative answers. The questions as they age grow ever broader, the answers are seen to be more limited.”

Littles Bigs Age Science Grows Growth Answers Accounts Big Questions

Author:George Wald

“Science had better not free the minds of men too much, before it has tamed their instincts.”

Men Mind Science Freedom Too Much Accounts Instinct Tamed

Book:The substance of man

Source: The substance of man

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