Quotes About Science

Society lives by faith, and develops by science.

Just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts.

One would have to have completely forgotten the history of science so as to not remember that the desire to know nature has had the most constant and the happiest influence on the development of mathematics.

It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.

Science is built up of facts, as a house is built of stones; but an accumulation of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.

Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science.

It is truth alone--scientific, established, proved, and rational truth--which is capable of satisfying nowadays the awakened minds of all classes. We may still say perhaps "faith governs the world"--but the faith of the present is no longer in revelation or in the priest--it is in reason and science.

What we must understand is that the industries, processes, and inventions created by modern science can be used either to subjugate or liberate. The choice is up to us.

There have been times when the church seemed afraid, but she is no longer. Analyze, dissect, use your microscope or your spectrum till the last atom of matter is reached; reflect and refine till the last element of thought is made clear; the church now knows with the certainty of science what she once knew only by the certainty of faith, that you will find enthroned behind all thought and matter only one central idea--that idea which the church has never ceased to embody--I AM!

From cradle to grave this problem of running order through chaos, direction through space, discipline through freedom, unity through multiplicity, has always been, and must always be, the task of education, as it is the moral of religion, philosophy, science, art, politics and economy; but a boy's will is his life, and he dies when it is broken, as the colt dies in harness, taking a new nature in becoming tame...

For me there has been no serious difficulty in reconciling the principles of true science with the principles of true religion, for both are concerned with the eternal verities of the universe. Believe everything scholars can strictly prove and suit yourself about the rest. Science has nothing to say one way or the other about whether there is a spirit…The evidence lies outside of our present scientific knowledge.

Poetry is as necessary to comprehension as science. It is as impossible to live without reverence as it is without joy.

The cancer doesn't bother me. I have great faith that the technology will beat it.

Basta por ahora de polémicas, la ciencia no es una mera cuestión de erudición; está integrada al destino absolutamente personal del investigador.

Ahora bien, si hay innovación, esta se sitúa precisamente en este punto. La teología debe ser, o volver a ser, una ciencia de la experiencia, aquella cuyos intereses conciernen directamente al destino de cada persona individual.

la palabra «teología» el regusto de una ciencia de la vida (y es tal vez la consecuencia de que, en los países latinos especialmente, estos textos sean percibidos como la más insólita y verdadera impertinencia).

The "field" encompassed in the "science of the Imagination" is so vast that it is difficult to enumerate all its sectors.

Men are probably nearer the central truth in their superstitions than in their science.

With all your science - can you tell how it is, and whence it is, that light comes into the soul?

These lower correspondences are in their nature unfitted for an Eternal Life. Even if they were perfect in their relation to their Environment, they would still not be Eternal. However opposed, apparently, to the scientific definition of Eternal Life, it is yet true that perfect correspondence with Environment is not Eternal Life. . . . An Eternal Life demands an Eternal Environment.

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A scientist's accomplishments are equal to the integral of his ability integrated over the hours of his effort.

No existing form of anthropoid ape is even remotely related to the stock which has given rise to man.

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