Quotes About Science

Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.

Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are instinctively responsive to the medium of expression.

No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.

Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science.

Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before science learnt to do so.

Many people and governments share the mistaken belief that science, with new, ingenious devices and techniques, can rescue us from the troubles we face without our having to mend our ways and change our patterns of activity. This is not so.

Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.

Science is organized knowledge.

In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances.

The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.