It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and unexpected findings of science.
Carl Sagan
Science is what you know. Philosophy is what you don't know.
Bertrand Russell
Science can only determine what is, but not what shall be, and beyond its realm, value judgements remain indispensable. Religion, on the other hand, is concerned only with evaluating human thought and actions; it is not qualified to speak of real facts and the relationships between them.
Albert Einstein
I am not a literary man. I am a man of science, and I am interested in that branch of Anthropology which deals with the history of human speech.
Sir James Murray
Modern science is still trying to produce a tranquilizer more effective than a few kind words
Douglas Meador
The great tragedy of science--the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
Thomas Huxley
The most advanced methods of science and rational calculation in the hands of a social system that is at odds with human needs produce nothing but irrationality; the more advanced the science and the more rational the calculations, the more swiftly and calamitously is this irrationality engendered. Like Captain Ahab, the capitalists say, “all my means are sane, my motives and object mad.â€
Harry Braverman
False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.
Charles Darwin
Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive, and probably wrong.
Richard Feynman
Philosophy is the science which considers truth
Aristotle
They (preachers) dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subversions of the duperies on which they live
Thomas Jefferson
Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
Stephen Leacock
Engineering is the science and art of efficient dealing with materials and forces... it involves the most economic design and execution... assuring, when properly performed, the most advantageous combination of accuracy, safety, durability, speed, simplicity, efficiency, and economy possible for the conditions of design and service.
J. A. L. Waddell, Frank W. Skinner, and H. E. Wess
Engineering is the science of economy, of conserving the energy, kinetic and potential, provided and stored up by nature for the use of man. It is the business of engineering to utilize this energy to the best advantage, so that there may be the least possible waste.
William A. Smith