Quotes About Science

The idea that somehow people of African descent are not part of the same species as whites was accepted by European men of science in the early modern period.

I think if a man can create something like an atom bomb, he can surely create something with his own mind.

Science brings to the light of day everything man had believed sacred. Technique takes possession of it and enslaves it.

Landscape is the creation of the one God - his sensuous image and revelation, through the investigation of which, by science or its representation by art, men's hearts are lifted toward him.

I do not know of a single TV meteorologist who buys into the man-made global warming hype. I know there must be a few out there, but I can't find them.

Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.

Scientists still know less about what attracts men than they do about what attracts mosquitoes.

Sin has gotten men into more trouble than science can get him out of.

In praising science, it does not follow that we must adopt the very poor philosophies which scientific men have constructed. In philosophy they have much more to learn than to teach.

A man got up [after one of Huxley's 'sermons'] and said 'they had never heard anything like that in Norwich before'. Never 'did Science seem so vast and mere creeds so little'.

The worst that happened to men of science was that Galileo suffered an honorable detention and a mild reproof, before dying peacefully in his bed.

Women hate each other in science. You know why? Because the few that are around were trained by men. They survived by being twice as good and twice as competitive and twice as badass as the guys.

The man of science multiples the points of contact between man and nature.

Man's natural life span, 75 to 90 years or so, has not increased. It is the number of us who manage to attain it that has increased.

Such instances of the almost infinite unpredictability of man are known to social scientists, but they are no more affected by them than the asylum inmate is by being told that he is not Napoleon.

Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers.

The 'missing link' between ape and man will probably never be found- because it was an embryo.

Scientific, like spiritual truth, has ever from the beginning been descending from heaven to man.

Modern science has vindicated the natural equality of man.

The greatest inventions are those inquiries which tend to increase the power of man over matter.

Artists are on the average less happy than men of science.

Man can be scientifically manipulated.

All the conditions of happiness are realized in the life of the man of science.

For the wise men of old the cardinal problem had been how to conform the soul to reality. For magic and applied science alike the problem is how to subdue reality to the wishes of men.