As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress. Marcel Proust on science
Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century. Bertrand Russell on science
Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death. William Blake on science
Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science. Karl Marx on science
Science in the modern world has many uses its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich. Gilbert K. Chesterton on science
I am one of those scientists who feels that it is no longer enough just to get on and do science. We have to devote a significant proportion of our time and resources to defending it from deliberate attack from organised ignorance. Richard Dawkins on science
Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science. Blaise Pascal on science
The enlightenment is under threat. So is reason. So is truth. So is science, especially in the schools of America. Richard Dawkins on science
It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment. Galileo Galilei on science
The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing? Stephen Hawking on science
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. Galileo Galilei on science
Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10. Neil Armstrong on science
Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness. Aleister Crowley on science
The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose. William Blake on science
Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong. Jean-Paul Sartre on science
The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble. Benjamin Disraeli on science
Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive. George Eliot on science
Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion. Stephen Hawking on science
Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition. E. O. Wilson on science
When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean that's faith when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two that's science. Anton Chekhov on science