Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, but a new metaphysics can rescue us. Huston Smith on science
Most modern science fiction went to school on 'Dune.' Even 'Harry Potter' with its 'boy protagonist who has not yet grown into his destiny' shares a common theme. When I read it for the first time, I felt like I had learned another language, mastered a new culture, adopted a new religion. Gary Ross on science
Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements. Kenneth L. Pike on science
I believe very strongly, and have fought since many years ago - at least over 30 years ago - to get architecture not just within schools, but architecture talked about under history, geography, science, technology, art. Richard Rogers on science
In Poland, my audience is all women between 18 and 30. At U.S. conventions, you have the fantasy and science fiction crowd. At Harvard you have an entirely different audience. It's so schizophrenic. Jonathan Carroll on science
In teaching man, experimental science results in lessening his pride more and more by proving to him every day that primary causes, like the objective reality of things, will be hidden from him forever and that he can only know relations. Claude Bernard on science
Experimentation is an active science. Claude Bernard on science
Science does not permit exceptions. Claude Bernard on science
The most exciting thing in the twentieth century is science. John Charles Polanyi on science
Young people ask me if this country is serious about science. They aren't thinking about the passport that they will hold, but the country that they must rely on for support and encouragement. John Charles Polanyi on science
When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves. John Charles Polanyi on science
Science never gives up searching for truth, since it never claims to have achieved it. John Charles Polanyi on science
It is this, at its most basic, that makes science a humane pursuit it acknowledges the commonality of people's experience. John Charles Polanyi on science
Though neglectful of their responsibility to protect science, scientists are increasingly aware of their responsibility to society. John Charles Polanyi on science
Science gives us a powerful vocabulary, and it is impossible to produce a vocabulary with which one can only say nice things. John Charles Polanyi on science
Better to die in the pursuit of civilized values, we believed, than in a flight underground. We were offering a value system couched in the language of science. John Charles Polanyi on science
Today, Academies of Science use their influence around the world in support of human rights. John Charles Polanyi on science
The respect for human rights, essential if we are to use technology wisely, is not something alien that must be grafted onto science. On the contrary, it is integral to science, as also to scholarship in general. John Charles Polanyi on science