“Science does not mean an idle resting upon a body of certain knowledge; it means unresting endeavor and continually progressing development toward an end which the poetic intuition may apprehend, but which the intellect can never fully grasp.” MayMeanDoeEndsBodyScienceCertainKnowledgeProgressDevelopmentAccountsIntuitionIntellectPoeticEndeavorIdleCertain Knowledge Author:Max Planck
“But just as astronomy succeeded astrology, following Kepler's discovery of planetary regularities, the discoveries of these many principles in empirical explorations of intellectual processes in machines should lead to a science, eventually.” ShouldScienceProcessPrinciplesIntellectualDiscoveryMachinesAccountsFollowingIntellectAstronomyExplorationAstrologyRegularityKepler Author:Marvin Minsky
“Science itself is badly in need of integration and unification. The tendency is more and more the other way ... Only the graduate student, poor beast of burden that he is, can be expected to know a little of each. As the number of physicists increases, each specialty becomes more self-sustaining and self-contained. Such Balkanization carries physics, and indeed, every science further away, from natural philosophy, which, intellectually, is the meaning and goal of science.” KnowsWayNeedsLittlesSelfPhilosophyScienceGoalNaturalPoorNumbersKnowledgeStudentsAccountsIncreaseBurdenIntellectExpectedPhysicsTendenciesBeastCarrieGraduatesIntegrationPhysicistSustainingSpecialtyUnificationGraduate StudentsSelf ContainedNatural PhilosophyBeast Of Burden Author:Isidor Isaac Rabi
“In honoring the Wright Brothers, it is customary and proper to recognize their contribution to scientific progress. But I believe it is equally important to emphasize the qualities in their pioneering life and the character in man that such a life produced. The Wright Brothers balanced sucess with modesty, science with simplicity. At Kitty Hawk their intellects and senses worked in mutual support. They represented man in balance, and from that balance came wings to lift a world.” MenWorldBelieveImportantCharacterSuccessScienceI BelieveQualitySupportProgressBrotherBalanceAccountsWingsSimplicityIntellectSensesLiftsContributionMutualBalancedModestyHawksKittiesPioneeringScientific ProgressSucessWright BrothersMutual Support Author:Charles Lindbergh
“Science would be ruined if (like sports) it were to put competition above everything else, and if it were to clarify the rules of competition by withdrawing entirely into narrowly defined specialties. The rare scholars who are nomads-by-choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the settled disciplines.” IfsWould BeScienceChoicesSportsDisciplineEssentialsIntellectualAccountsCompetitionIntellectDefinedWelfareScholarRuinedNomadSpecialtyWithdrawing Author:Benoit Mandelbrot
“Western science is a product of the Apollonian mind: its hope is that by naming and classification, by the cold light of intellect, archaic night can be pushed back and defeated.” MindLightScienceNightProductsColdAccountsWesternIntellectDefeatedClassification Book:Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism Source: Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism
“When we say 'science' we can either mean any manipulation of the inventive and organizing power of the human intellect: or we can mean such an extremely different thing as the religion of science, the vulgarized derivative from this pure activity manipulated by a sort of priestcraft into a great religious and political weapon.” HumansMeanDifferentSciencePoliticalReligiousPureActivityWeaponsAccountsIntellectDifferent ThingsManipulationDerivativesGreat Religious Author:Wyndham Lewis
“Whenever the essential nature of things is analysed by the intellect, it must seem absurd or paradoxical. This has always been recognized by the mystics, but has become a problem in science only very recently.” ProblemSeemsScienceEssentialsAccountsIntellectAbsurdParadoxical Author:Fritjof Capra
“Science would not be what it is if there had not been a Galileo, a Newton or a Lavoisier, any more than music would be what it is if Bach, Beethoven and Wagner had never lived. The world as we know it is the product of its geniuses-and there may be evil as well as beneficent genius-and to deny that fact, is to stultify all history, whether it be that of the intellectual or the economic world.” IfsKnowsWorldWellsMayFactsWould BeScienceEvilEconomicProductsGeniusIntellectualAccountsDenyIntellectNewtonWagner Book:What is science? Source: What is science?