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Quotes About Science

Biologists can be just as sensitive to heresy as theologians.
~ H. G. Wells
Science can prove nothing about God, because God lies outside its province.
~ Huston Smith
Philosophy stands in need of a science which shall determine the possibility, principles, and extent of human knowledge à priori.
~ Immanuel Kant
I'm supposed to be a scientific person but I use intuition more than logic in making basic decisions.
~ Seymour Cray
Everybody knows that orthopaedic science provides beautiful false noses for those who have lost their noses naturally or as the result of an operation.
~ Gaston Leroux
Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men's minds which follows from the advance of science.
~ Charles Darwin
Since the beginning of time, spirituality and religion have been called to fill in the gaps that science did not understand.
~ Dan Brown, Angels & Demons
Now science has presented us with a hope called stem cell research, which may provide our scientists with many answers that have for so long been beyond our grasp.
~ Nancy Reagan
Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.
~ Jean Rostand
Half of what we know is wrong, the purpose of science is to determine which half.
~ Arthur Kornberg
Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science.
~ Albert Einstein
There can be no scientific dispute with respect to faith, for science and faith exclude one another.
~ Rudolf Virchow
Science is not infallible, but it has something religion lacks: a process of testing claims against real-world observations.
~ PZ Myers
Science is not a substitute for common sense, but an extension of it.
~ Willard Van Orman Quine
Science has often resisted new ideas and fought bitterly to prevent them coming on board.
~ Graham Hancock
Science has been seriously retarded by the study of what is not worth knowing and of what is not knowable.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance
~ Clifford Geertz
Let science tell us what and how. Let religion tell us who and why.
~ Pope John Paul II
Poets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind, because they drink at streams which we have not yet made accessible to science.
~ Sigmund Freud
Human resources are just tremendous in Egypt but we need the science base.
~ Ahmed H. Zewail
The quantum hypothesis will eventually find its exact expression in certain equations which will be a more exact formulation of the law of causality.
~ Max Planck
Make-believe colors the past with innocent distortion, and it swirls ahead of us in a thousand ways - in science, in politics, in every bold intention.
~ Shirley Temple
Religion has always persecuted science.
~ Dan Brown
To say that climate change will be catastrophic hides a cascade of value-laden assumptions that do not emerge from empirical science.
~ Richard Lindzen