Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue.
Robert K. MertonTags: science skepticism
Science without conscience is the soul's perdition.
François RabelaisTags: science conscience
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own.
Bertrand RussellTags: science
Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.Tags: science common-sense
Scientific principles and laws do not lie on the surface of nature. They are hidden, and must be wrested from nature by an active and elaborate technique of inquiry.
John DeweyScientists, therefore, are responsible for their research, not only intellectually but also morally. This responsibility has become an important issue in many of today's sciences, but especially so in physics, in which the results of quantum mechanics and relativity theory have opened up two very different paths for physicists to pursue. They may lead us - to put it in extreme terms - to the Buddha or to the Bomb, and it is up to each of us to decide which path to take.
Fritjof CapraTags: science
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Isaac AsimovA new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
Max PlanckTags: science paradigm-shift scientists
Now, my own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose. I have read and heard many attempts at a systematic account of it, from materialism and theosophy to the Christian system or that of Kant, and I have always felt that they were much too simple. I suspect that there are more things in heaven and earth that are dreamed of, or can be dreamed of, in any philosophy. That is the reason why I have no philosophy myself, and must be my excuse for dreaming.
J.B.S. HaldaneTags: science philosophy
An ocean traveler has even more vividly the impression that the ocean is made of waves than that it is made of water.
Arthur Stanley EddingtonTags: science systems cybernetics
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