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“We would be 1,500 years ahead if it hadn't been for the church dragging science back by its coattails and burning our best minds at the stake.”

“Some writers, rejecting the idea which science had reached, that reefs of rocks could be due in any way to "animalcules," have talked of electrical forces, the first and last appeal of ignorance.”

Way Firsts Ideas Lasts Science Force Rocks Ignorance Accounts Dues Ignorant Appeals Electrical Rejecting Reefs Firsts And Lasts

Book:Corals and Coral Islands

Source: Corals and Coral Islands

“Without an acquaintance with chemistry, the statesman must remain a stranger to the true vital interests of the state, to the means of its organic development and improvement; ... The highest economic or material interests of a country, the increased and more profitable production of food for man and animals, ... are most closely linked with the advancement and diffusion of the natural sciences, especially of chemistry.”

Source: Familiar Letters on Chemistry, in its relation to Physiology, Dietetics, Agriculture, Commerce and Political Economy: Edited by John Blyth

“At the age of three I began to look around my grandfather's library. My first knowledge of astronomy came from reading and looking at pictures at that time. By the time I was six I remember him buying books for me. ... I think I was eight, he bought me a three-inch telescope on a brass mounting. ... So, as far back as I can remember, I had an early interest in science in general, astronomy in particular.”

“In a sense Shapley's telling me that space was transparent, which I shouldn't have believed, illustrates a fundamental problem in science, believing what people tell you. Go and find it out for yourself. That same error has persisted in my life and in many other people's. Authorities are not always authorities on everything; they often cling to their own mistakes.”

People Believe Problem Science Space Mistake Authority Accounts Fundamentals Errors Transparent

Author:Jesse L. Greenstein

“No scientific subject has ever aroused quite the same mixture of hopes and fears [as atomic energy].”

Science Hope Energy Subjects Accounts Mixtures Hopes And Fears Atomic Energy

Author:Edward Victor Appleton

“Science, while it penetrates deeply the system of things about us, sees everywhere, in the dim limits of vision, the word mystery.”

Science Vision Mystery Limits Accounts Penetrate

Book:Corals and Coral Islands

Source: Corals and Coral Islands

“The spirit of science is not to prejudge, but to give any honest query a fair shake.”

Giving Science Spirit Honest Fairs Accounts Shakes Queries

Author:Allen Wheelis

“There are no peoples however primitive without religion and magic. Nor are there, it must be added at one, any savage races lacking in either the scientific attitude, or in science, though this lack has been frequently attributed to them.”

Has Beens Science Religion Race Attitude Magic Accounts Primitive Savages Lacking

Author:Bronislaw Malinowski

“What struck me most in England was the perception that only those works which have a practical tendency awake attention and command respect, while the purely scientific, which possess far greater merit are almost unknown. And yet the latter are the proper source from which the others flow. Practice alone can never lead to the discovery of a truth or a principle. In Germany it is quite the contrary. Here in the eyes of scientific men no value, or at least but a trifling one, is placed upon the practical results. The enrichment of science is alone considered worthy attention.”

“Whether statistics be an art or a science... or a scientific art, we concern ourselves little. It is the basis of social and political dynamics, and affords the only secure ground on which the truth or falsehood of the theories and hypotheses of that complicated science can be brought to the test.”

Littles Art Science Political Social Theory Concern Tests Accounts Bases Complicated Secure Statistics Falsehood Hypothesis Dynamics

Author:Adolphe Quetelet

“Yet as I cast my eye over the whole course of science I behold instances of false science, even more pretentious and popular than that of Einstein gradually fading into ineptitude under the searchlight; and I have no doubt that there will arise a new generation who will look with a wonder and amazement, deeper than now accompany Einstein, at our galaxy of thinkers, men of science, popular critics, authoritative professors and witty dramatists, who have been satisfied to waive their common sense in view of Einstein's absurdities.”

“If our country's choice is to be a Great Power, Russia will be the great power not because of the nuclear potential, not because of faith in God or president, or western investments but thanks to the labor of the nation, faith in Knowledge and Science and thanks to the maintenance and development of scientific potential and education.”

Ifs God Science Nations President Education Knowledge Development Labor Accounts Investment Western Nuclear Russia Thanks Faith In God Maintenance Great Power

Author:Zhores Alferov

“Scientific practice is above all a story-telling practice. ... Biology is inherently historical, and its form of discourse is inherently narrative. ... Biology as a way of knowing the world is kin to Romantic literature, with its discourse about organic form and function. Biology is the fiction appropriate to objects called organisms; biology fashions the facts "discovered" about organic beings.”

World Way Facts Stories Form Science Literature Fiction Knowledge Practice History Knowing Fashion Objects Accounts Function Historical Narrative Appropriate Biology Organisms Discourse

Author:Donna J. Haraway

“If science could get rid of consciousness, it would have disposed of the only stumbling block to its universal application.”

Ifs Science Consciousness Universal Accounts Block Application Stumbling Stumbling Blocks

Author:Brand Blanshard

“My interest in science was excited at age nine by an article on astronomy in National Geographic; the author was Donald Menzel of the Harvard Observatory. For the next few years, I regularly made star maps and snuck out at night to make observations from a locust tree in our back yard.”

Years Made Age Science Night Next Stars Interest Tree Accounts Excited Astronomy Nine Observation Excitement Maps Articles Yards Harvard National Geographic

Author:Dudley R. Herschbach

“Of course, if one ignores contradictory observations, one can claim to have an "elegant" or "robust" theory. But it isn't science.”

Ifs Science Courses Theory Accounts Claims Observation Elegant Contradictory Robust

Author:Halton Arp

“[An engineer's] invention causes things to come into existence from ideas, makes world conform to thought; whereas science, by deriving ideas from observation, makes thought conform to existence.”

World Ideas Science Causes Existence Accounts Invention Observation Engineering Engineers Conform

Author:Carl Mitcham

“All sciences originated among the sons of Israel, the reason being the existence of prophecy among them which made their perfection in the sciences amazing.”

Made Reason Science Existence Son Perfection Accounts Israel Prophecy

Author:Averroes

“I maintain that the human mystery is incredibly demeaned by scientific reductionism, with its claim in promissory materialism to account eventually for all of the spiritual world in terms of patterns of neuronal activity. This belief must be classed as a superstition. ... We have to recognize that we are spiritual beings with souls existing in a spiritual world as well as material beings with bodies and brains existing in a material world.”

“It was my science that drove me to the conclusion that the world is much more complicated than can be explained by science. It is only through the supernatural that I can understand the mystery of existence.”

World I Can Science Understanding Existence Mystery Accounts Complicated Conclusion Concluding Anthropic Principle

Author:Allan Sandage

“Every new discovery of science is a further 'revelation' of the order which God has built into His universe.”

God Science Order Universe Discovery Built Accounts Revelations New Discoveries

Book:Science and Imagination: Selected Papers

Source: Science and Imagination: Selected Papers

“The progress of science has always been the result of a close interplay between our concepts of the universe and our observations on nature. The former can only evolve out of the latter and yet the latter is also conditioned greatly by the former. Thus in our exploration of nature, the interplay between our concepts and our observations may sometimes lead to totally unexpected aspects among already familiar phenomena.”

May Sometimes Science Universe Nature Natural Results Progress Concepts Aspect Accounts Familiar Observation Former Evolve Unexpected Latter Exploration

Author:Tsung-Dao Lee

“The sense that the meaning of the universe had evaporated was what seemed to escape those who welcomed Darwin as a benefactor of mankind. Nietzsche considered that evolution presented a correct picture of the world, but that it was a disastrous picture. His philosophy was an attempt to produce a new world-picture which took Darwinism into account but was not nullified by it.”

World Philosophy Science Universe Mankind Produce Evolution Accounts Philosophical New World Darwinism Benefactors

Book:Nietzsche: The Man and His Philosophy

Source: Nietzsche: The Man and His Philosophy

“We have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind has put into nature. We have found a strange foot-print on the shores of the unknown. We have devised profound theories, one after another, to account for its origin. At last, we have succeeded in reconstructing the creature that made the foot-print. And Lo! it is our own.”

Mind Made Lasts Success Science Universe Found Nature Feet Strange Theory Creatures Accounts Profound Print Shore Reconstructing

Author:Arthur Eddington

“As ideas are preserved and communicated by means of words, it necessarily follows that we cannot improve the language of any science, without at the same time improving the science itself; neither can we, on the other hand, improve a science without improving the language or nomenclature which belongs to it.”

Mean Ideas Hands Science Language Accounts Improving Nomenclature

Book:Elements of chemistry, tr. by R. Kerr

Source: Elements of chemistry, tr. by R. Kerr

“Characteristically skeptical of the idea that living things would faithfully follow mathematical formulas, [Robert Harper] seized upon factors in corn which seemed to blend in the hybrid-rather than be represented by plus or minus signs, and put several seasons into throwing doubt upon the concept of immutable hypothetical units of inheritance concocted to account for selected results.”

“In science one must search for ideas. If there are no ideas, there is no science. A knowledge of facts is only valuable in so far as facts conceal ideas: facts without ideas are just the sweepings of the brain and the memory.”

Ifs Ideas Facts Science Memories Brain Accounts Valuable No Idea Sweeping

Author:Vissarion Belinsky

“The fundamental characteristic of the scientific method is honesty. In dealing with any question, science asks no favors. ... I believe that constant use of the scientific method must in the end leave its impress upon him who uses it. ... A life spent in accordance with scientific teachings would be of a high order. It would practically conform to the teachings of the highest types of religion. The motives would be different, but so far as conduct is concerned the results would be practically identical.”

“As geology is essentially a historical science, the working method of the geologist resembles that of the historian. This makes the personality of the geologist of essential importance in the way he analyzes the past.”

Way Past Science Personality Essentials Accounts Importance Method Historical Historian Geology Geologist

Author:Reinout Willem van Bemmelen

“Upon the whole, Chymistry is as yet but an opening science, closely connected with the usefull and ornamental arts, and worthy the attention of the liberal mind. And it must always become more and more so: for though it is only of late, that it has been looked upon in that light, the great progress already made in Chymical knowledge, gives us a pleasant prospect of rich additions to it. The Science is now studied on solid and rational grounds. While our knowledge is imperfect, it is apt to run into error: but Experiment is the thread that will lead us out of the labyrinth.”

“Astronomy is the science of the harmony of infinite expanse.”

Science Accounts Harmony Infinite Astronomy Expanse

Author:John Scott Russell

“[Science] is the literature of God written on the stars-the trees-the rocks-and more important because [of] its marked utilitarian character.”

Important Character Science Literature Stars Written Tree Rocks Accounts Importance Astronomy Utilitarian

Author:James A. Garfield

“If the God of revelation is most appropriately worshipped in the temple of religion, the God of nature may be equally honored in the temple of science. Even from its lofty minarets the philosopher may summon the faithful to prayer, and the priest and sage exchange altars without the compromise of faith or knowledge.”

Ifs May God Science Religion Faith Prayer Knowledge Accounts Philosopher Compromise Faithful Revelations Temples Priests Sage Honored Altars Lofty

Author:David Brewster

“In geology the effects to be explained have almost all occurred already, whereas in these other sciences effects actually taking place have to be explained.”

Science Effects Accounts Geology

Book:Climate and Time in Their Geological Relations: A Theory of Secular Changes of the Earth's Climate

Source: Climate and Time in Their Geological Relations: A Theory of Secular Changes of the Earth's Climate

“With respect to those points, on which the declaration of Scripture is positive and decisive, as, for instance, in asserting the low antiquity of the human race; the evidence of all facts that have yet been established in Geology coincides with the records of Sacred History and Profane Tradition to confirm the conclusion that the existence of mankind can on no account be supposed to have taken its beginning before that time which is assigned to it in the Mosaic writings.”

“The subjective element in geological studies accounts for two characteristic types that can be distinguished among geologists. One considering geology as a creative art, the other regarding geology as an exact science.”

Art Two Science Creative Study Type Elements Accounts Historical Characteristics Considering Subjective Distinguished Geology Creative Art Geologist Exact Sciences

Author:Reinout Willem van Bemmelen

“If the question were, "What ought to be the next objective in science?" my answer would be the teaching of science to the young, so that when the whole population grew up there would be a far more general background of common sense, based on a knowledge of the real meaning of the scientific method of discovering truth.”

Ifs Real Whole Would Be Young Science Next Answers Common Knowledge Teaching Grew Ought Grew Up Accounts Method Population Backgrounds Objectives Common Sense Discovering Scientific Method

Author:Elihu Thomson

“If we would serve science, we must extend her limits, not only as far as our own knowledge is concerned, but in the estimation of others.”

Ifs Knows Science Knowledge Limits Concerned Accounts Estimation

Book:Cellular Pathology as based upon physiological and pathological histology. Twenty lectures delivered in ... 1858. Translated from the second edition of the original by F. Chance. With notes and numerous emendations principally from MS. notes of the author, and illustrated by ... engravings on wood.

Source: Cellular Pathology as based upon physiological and pathological histology. Twenty lectures delivered in ... 1858. Translated from the second edition of the original by F. Chance. With notes and numerous emendations principally from MS. notes of the author, and illustrated by ... engravings on wood.

“It is the desire for explanations that are at once systematic and controllable by factual evidence that generates science; and it is the organization and classification of knowledge on the basis of explanatory principles that is the distinctive goal of the sciences.”

Science Desire Goal Principles Knowledge Evidence Organization Accounts Bases Explanation Systematic Distinctive Factual Classification

Author:Ernest Nagel

“Knowledge of Nature is an account at bank, where each dividend is added to the principal and the interest is ever compounded; and hence it is that human progress, founded on natural knowledge, advances with ever increasing speed.”

Knows Humans Science Interest Natural Knowledge Progress Accounts Speed Principal Dividends Human Progress

Book:Presidential Address by Grove Karl Gilbert: With Constitution and Standing Rules, Abstracts of Minutes and Lists of Officers and Members, 1895

Source: Presidential Address by Grove Karl Gilbert: With Constitution and Standing Rules, Abstracts of Minutes and Lists of Officers and Members, 1895

“Part of the strength of science is that it has tended to attract individuals who love knowledge and the creation of it. ... Thus, it is the communication process which is at the core of the vitality and integrity of science.”

Science Individual Process Knowledge Creation Communication Integrity Accounts Core Vitality

Book:Enough of Pessimism: 100 Essays

Source: Enough of Pessimism: 100 Essays

“Science is public, not private, knowledge.”

Knows Science Knowledge Accounts

Author:Robert K. Merton

“Science is teaching man to know and reverence truth, and to believe that only so far as he knows and loves it can he live worthily on earth, and vindicate the dignity of his spirit.”

Knows Men Love Believe Truth Earth Science Spirit Knowledge Teaching Dignity And Love Accounts Reverence

Book:Where are We and Whither Tending?: Three Lectures on the Reality and Worth of Human Progress

Source: Where are We and Whither Tending?: Three Lectures on the Reality and Worth of Human Progress

“The question whether atoms exist or not... belongs rather to metaphysics. In chemistry we have only to decide whether the assumption of atoms is an hypothesis adapted to the explanation of chemical phenomena... whether a further development of the atomic hypothesis promises to advance our knowledge of the mechanism of chemical phenomena... I rather expect that we shall some day find, for what we now call atoms, a mathematico-mechanical explanation, which will render an account of atomic weight, of atomicity, and of numerous other properties of the so-called atoms.”

Science Knowledge Development Promise Weight Accounts Property Explanation Assumption Chemistry Chemicals Atoms Mechanism Metaphysics Hypothesis Adapted

Author:August Kekule

“The science and technology which have advanced man safely into space have brought about startling medical advances for man on earth. Out of space research have come new knowledge, techniques and instruments which have enabled some bedridden invalids to walk, the totally deaf to hear, the voiceless to talk, and, in the foreseeable future, may even make it possible for the blind to "see."”

“The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them.”

Knows Science Consciousness Knowledge Limits Tasks Accounts Stakes

Author:Rudolf Virchow

“To this day, we see all around us the Promethean drive to omnipotence through technology and to omniscience through science. The effecting of all things possible and the knowledge of all causes are the respective primary imperatives of technology and of science. But the motivating imperative of society continues to be the very different one of its physical and spiritual survival. It is now far less obvious than it was in Francis Bacon's world how to bring the three imperatives into harmony, and how to bring all three together to bear on problems where they superpose.”

Source: The Advancement of Science, and Its Burdens: The Jefferson Lecture and Other Essays

“We thus begin to see that the institutionalized practice of citations and references in the sphere of learning is not a trivial matter. While many a general reader-that is, the lay reader located outside the domain of science and scholarship-may regard the lowly footnote or the remote endnote or the bibliographic parenthesis as a dispensable nuisance, it can be argued that these are in truth central to the incentive system and an underlying sense of distributive justice that do much to energize the advancement of knowledge.”

Source: On Social Structure and Science

“'Science in itself' is nothing, for it exists only in the human beings who are its bearers. 'Science for its own sake' usually means nothing more than science for the sake of the people who happen to be pursuing it.”

People Humans Mean Happens Science Human Beings Accounts Sake

Author:Rudolf Virchow