The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science. Samuel Butler
Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more? Richard P. Feynman
A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless. Simone Weil
But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history of scientific ideas, rather than laboratory experience. Richard Dawkins
We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry. Maria Montessori
Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic. Thomas Szasz
Science coverage could be improved by the recognition that science is timeless, and therefore science stories should not need to be pegged to an item in the news. Richard Dawkins
Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed. Thomas Huxley
By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified. E. O. Wilson
If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go. John Burroughs
It seems to me that socialists today can preserve their position in academic economics merely by the pretense that the differences are entirely moral questions about which science cannot decide. Friedrich August von Hayek
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Barbara Tuchman
Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years. John Burroughs
Mild autism can give you a genius like Einstein. If you have severe autism, you could remain nonverbal. You don't want people to be on the severe end of the spectrum. But if you got rid of all the autism genetics, you wouldn't have science or art. All you would have is a bunch of social 'yak yaks.' Temple Grandin
When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man. Diogenes
One science only will one genius fit so vast is art, so narrow human wit. Alexander Pope
The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on science and art are as well. Anton Chekhov
'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.' W. H. Auden
In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite. Paul Dirac