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Science never gives up searching for truth, since it never claims to have achieved it.

John Charles Polanyi

Scientist · Canadian · b. 1929

The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on; science and art are as well.

Anton Chekhov

Dramatist · Russian · 1860 – 1904

But man has still another powerful resource: natural science with its strictly objective methods.

Ivan Pavlov

Psychologist · Russian · 1849 – 1936

Science always has its origin in the adaptation of thought to some definite field of experience.

Ernst Mach

Physicist · Austrian · 1838 – 1916

I love biomedical science, I love astronomy, and you can't really do much with those in a fantasy setting.

Elizabeth Moon

Author · American · b. 1945

Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.

Pope John Paul II

Clergyman · Polish · 1920 – 2005

I have an idealistic view of science as a liberalising and progressive force for humanity.

Paul Nurse

Scientist · British · b. 1949

American science is much more organized, much more hierarchical than British science has been.

Martin Fleischmann

Scientist · English · b. 1927

I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that.

Octavia Butler

Writer · American · 1947 – 2006

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

Plato

Philosopher · Greek

Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Clergyman · American

Those theologians who are beginning to take the doctrine of creation very seriously should pay some attention to science's story.

John Polkinghorne

Physicist · British · b. 1930

Why is it the philosopher who is expected to be easier and not some scientist who is even more inaccessible?

Jacques Derrida

Philosopher · French · 1930 – 2004

I think you know that I classify science as British science, American science, and everybody else.

Martin Fleischmann

Scientist · English · b. 1927

I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false.

Clifford Geertz

Scientist · American · 1926 – 2006

Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat, leading to bad science and worse religion.

Michael Shermer

Writer · b. 1954

The world is full of strange phenomena that cannot be explained by the laws of logic or science. Dennis Rodman is only one example.

Dave Barry

Journalist · American · b. 1947

My personal conviction is that science is concerned wholly with truth, not with ethics.

Arthur Keith

Scientist · Scottish · 1866 – 1955

A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.

Simone Weil

Philosopher · French · 1909 – 1943

Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature.

Luther Burbank

Environmentalist · American · 1849 – 1926

Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah.

Thomas Huxley

Scientist · English · 1825 – 1895

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

Edgar Allan Poe

Poet · American · 1809 – 1849

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Poet · American · 1803 – 1882

The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.

Woodrow Wilson

President · American · 1856 – 1924

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.

Helen Keller

Author · American · 1880 – 1968

As scientists, we keep an open mind, but we have to base our ideas about the past on archaeological evidence.

Zahi Hawass

Scientist · Egyptian · b. 1947

The artist does not illustrate science (but) he frequently responds to the same interests that a scientist does.

Lewis Mumford

Sociologist · American · 1895 – 1990

Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.

Aleister Crowley

Critic · English · 1875 – 1947

Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

Karl Kraus

Writer · Austrian · 1874 – 1936

I certainly saw science as a kind of calling, and one with as much legitimacy as a religious calling.

Joshua Lederberg

Scientist · American · 1925 – 2008

Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey.

John Charles Polanyi

Scientist · Canadian · b. 1929

Refining is inevitable in science when you have made measurements of a phenomenon for a long period of time.

Charles Francis Richter

Scientist · American · 1900 – 1985

Society lives by faith, and develops by science.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Philosopher · Swiss · b. 1821

Ecclesiasticism in science is only unfaithfulness to truth.

Thomas Huxley

Scientist · English · 1825 – 1895

It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing.

Norman Cousins

Editor · American · b. 1915

It is this, at its most basic, that makes science a humane pursuit; it acknowledges the commonality of people's experience.

John Charles Polanyi

Scientist · Canadian · b. 1929

As a microbiologist, I am particularly concerned with Mr. Bush's blatant disregard for science.

Louise Slaughter

Politician · American · b. 1929

I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport.

Frederik Pohl

Writer · American · b. 1919

Much of Indian science seems intuitive and not bound by the rigid thinking of classical scientists.

Roland Joffe

Director · English · b. 1945

There is no question that Taiwan is a state in any political science definition of a state.

William Kirby

Scientist · English · 1759 – 1850

But honestly, if you do a rigorous survey of my work, I'll bet you'll find that biology is a theme far more often than physical science.

David Brin

Author · American · b. 1950

Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.

Konrad Lorenz

Scientist · Austrian · 1903 – 1989

Scientists and scholars should constitute themselves as an international NGO of exceptional authority.

John Charles Polanyi

Scientist · Canadian · b. 1929

The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.

Paul Klee

Artist · Swiss · 1879 – 1940

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

Carl Sagan

Scientist · American · 1934 – 1996

Science, for hundreds of years, has spanned the differences between cultures and between countries.

Laurel Clark

Astronaut · American · 1961 – 2003

'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'

W. H. Auden

Poet · English · 1907 – 1973

Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.

Jean Rostand

Scientist · French · 1894 – 1977

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