Science Quotes

Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts.

Heinz Pagels

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of the imagination.

John Dewey

The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

No one should approach the temple of science with the soul of a money changer.

Thomas Browne

Ethics and Science need to shake hands.

Richard Clarke Cabot

Science is all those things which are confirmed to such a degree that it would be unreasonable to withhold one's provisional consent.

Stephen Jay Gould

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

Albert Einstein

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.

Will Durant

The most remarkable discovery made by scientists is science itself.

Gerard Piel

Science is simply common sense at its best that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.

Thomas Henry Huxley

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

Adam Smith

[Science is] the desire to know causes.

William Hazlitt

In essence, science is a perpetual search for an intelligent and integrated comprehension of the world we live in.

Cornelius Bernardus Van Neil

Science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgments of all kinds remain necessary.

Albert Einstein

Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions

Oscar Wilde