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Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.
J. Robert Oppenheimer on science

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.
Henry Adams on science

Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
Arthur C. Clarke on science

Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
Baruch Spinoza on science

All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn't read it the way you read history or science.
Leslie Fiedler on science

That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.
Edward Abbey on science

Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.
Jacob Bronowski on science

Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel on science

Form your life humanly, and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of science without something divine.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel on science

Biology is now bigger than physics, as measured by the size of budgets, by the size of the workforce, or by the output of major discoveries and biology is likely to remain the biggest part of science through the twenty-first century.
Freeman Dyson on science

Human Nature is the only science of man and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.
David Hume on science

Society lives by faith, and develops by science.
Henri Frederic Amiel on science

Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question, the same for every one of us. Science has no answer to it.
Max Planck on science

Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.
Ludwig Wittgenstein on science

After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.
Marie Curie on science

Actually, I majored in marketing and I have a bachelor of science.
Wanda Sykes on science

Though many have tried, no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science, which can do so much, cannot decide what it ought to do.
Joseph Wood Krutch on science

Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.
Evan Esar on science

God created the world the laws of nature were created by God. True science tries to find out what God put in the world. The trouble is where scientists speculate about theology and they don't know what they're talking about because they weren't there. They can't speculate about the origins of life because they weren't there.
Pat Robertson on science

There are in fact two things, science and opinion the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance.
Hippocrates on science