Facts matter. Science matters. Reason matters. Mitt Romney has shown an inability to respect any of the three. President Barack Obama not only respects them, he relies on them. He is an overwhelming and unquestioned choice to continue as president. Eliot Spitzer on science
The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future. Lord Acton on science
The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art. Paul Klee on science
We have failed to protect science against speculative extensions of nature, continuing to assign physical and mathematical properties to hypothetical entities beyond what is observable in nature. Robert Lanza on science
Millions of people were inspired by the Apollo Program. I was five years old when I watched Apollo 11 unfold on television, and without any doubt it was a big contributor to my passions for science, engineering, and exploration. Jeff Bezos on science
Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century. J. G. Ballard on science
Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute. J. G. Ballard on science
I think mistakes are the essence of science and law. It's impossible to conceive of either scientific progress or legal progress without understanding the important role of being wrong and of mistakes. Alan Dershowitz on science
The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself. Jacob Bronowski on science
The artist does not illustrate science (but) he frequently responds to the same interests that a scientist does. Lewis Mumford on science
Further, the dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be explored for the solution of a problem so elegant and so celebrated. Carl Friedrich Gauss on science
The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it. Carl Friedrich Gauss on science
The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards these theories not as statements of ultimate fact but as art-forms. John B. S. Haldane on science
The science linking the increased frequency and severity of extreme weather to the climate crisis has matured tremendously in the last couple of years. Al Gore on science
Raising children is a creative endeavor, an art rather than a science. Bruno Bettelheim on science
The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly - to develop strategies of seeing and showing. Edward Tufte on science
It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing. Norman Cousins on science
To pursue science is not to disparage the things of the spirit. In fact, to pursue science rightly is to furnish the framework on which the spirit may rise. Vannevar Bush on science
Science will explain how but not why. It talks about what is, not what ought to be. Science is descriptive, not prescriptive it can tell us about causes but it cannot tell us about purposes. Indeed, science disavows purposes. Jonathan Sacks on science