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 on science
Reason, observation, and experience the holy trinity of science. Robert Green Ingersoll on science
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 on science
Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed. Thomas Huxley on science
By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified. E. O. Wilson on science
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 on science
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 on science
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Barbara Tuchman on science
Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years. John Burroughs on science
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 on science
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 on science
One science only will one genius fit so vast is art, so narrow human wit. Alexander Pope on science
The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on science and art are as well. Anton Chekhov on science
'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.' W. H. Auden on science
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 on science
Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense. Thomas Huxley on science
Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science. Thomas Huxley on science
If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth. E. O. Wilson on science
Borrowing knowledge of reality from all sources, taking the best from every study, Science of Mind brings together the highest enlightenment of the ages. Ernest Holmes on science
Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice. Thomas Aquinas on science