SCIENCE QUOTES III
quotations about science
SCIENCE IS RISEN!
The framework of veracity
This I seek for clarity
Reveal the path to certainty
PRAISE TO SCIENCE ETERNALLY!
"Brothers and sisters! Free your bodies
From the contempt of a soul
Let it die with archaic ideals
The only heaven and hell
Are the ones you make for yourself right here and now
ACCEPT SCIENCE INTO YOUR LIFE!"
It rules in Earth and sky
Now we live no more to die
SCIENCE IS RISEN!
THE FACELESS
"Hymn of Sanity"
Science is my life. To live out here you need to know things. You need to be able to read the land and feel the changes. I call it a quiet voice. To really hear it and understand your sense of place and where you are.... You really need to clear your mind to hear it.
JASMINE GIL
"Science is my life", Juneau Empire, September 8, 2017
On their way toward modern science human beings have discarded meaning. The concept is replaced by the formula, the cause by rules and probability.
THEODOR W. ADORNO
Dialectic of Enlightenment
Without the ontological assumption which goes with it, what is called science, is nothing but the dreamer's well-ordered dream.
GEORGE TRUMBULL LADD
Philosophy of Mind: An Essay in the Metaphysics of Psychology
Science corrects the old creeds, sweeps away, with every new perception, our infantile catechisms, and necessitates a faith commensurate with the grander orbits and universal laws which it discloses.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Address read before the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Cambridge, July 18, 1867
It is enough now to affirm that the modern physical sciences are very far indeed from being capable of exhibiting themselves systematically as stripped of all metaphysics. On the contrary, the most stupendous metaphysical assumptions and implications are woven into their structure throughout. Instead of being mere formulas for stating uniform sequences among phenomena, they are descriptions and explanations of experiences which appeal at every step to invisible and mysterious entities, to hidden and abstruse forces, to transactions that are assumed to take place among beings whose existence and modes of behavior can never become, in any sense of the words, immediate data of sensuous knowledge.
GEORGE TRUMBULL LADD
Philosophy of Mind: An Essay in the Metaphysics of Psychology
Human sciences are like gaslights in the streets. They serve our purpose only while the heavens are dark. The brighter the sky the more dim and useless they become.
DR. THOMAS
attributed, Holy Thoughts on Holy Things
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
WILL DURANT
The Story of Philosophy
The amount of scientific information we've discovered in the last twenty years is more than all the discoveries up to that point, from the beginning of language.
DANIEL J. LEVITIN
The Organized Mind
In the history of science we have discovered a sequence of better and better theories or models, from Plato to the classical theory of Newton to modern quantum theories. It is natural to ask: Will this sequence eventually reach an end point, an ultimate theory of the universe, that will include all forces and predict every observation we can make, or will we continue forever finding better theories, but never one that cannot be improved upon?
STEPHEN HAWKING & LEONARD MLODINOW
The Grand Design
Scientific revolutions, almost by definition, defy common sense.
MICHIO KAKU
preface, Hyperspace
There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG
"Notebook K", Aphorisms
Science is a magnificent force, but it is not a teacher of morals. It can perfect machinery, but it adds no moral restraints to protect society from the misuse of the machine. It can also build gigantic intellectual ships, but it constructs no moral rudders for the control of storm tossed human vessel. It not only fails to supply the spiritual element needed but some of its unproven hypotheses rob the ship of its compass and thus endangers its cargo.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN
undelivered summation of the Scopes 'Monkey' Trial in Dayton, Tennessee, 1925
I'm scared to death about the denial of science. Science is real. Science is the most real thing in our world, other than nature. I'm hoping we'll all get back to a place where we can really understand that science is tested knowledge.
HARRISON FORD
"Harrison Ford on conservation: 'Nature is my god'", Washington Post, September 29, 2017
For science is ... like virtue, its own exceeding great reward.
CHARLES KINGSLEY
"Soldiers of Science", The Works of Charles Kingsley
Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.
WILHELM REICH
The Function of the Organism
Science mines nature for truth of a different order -- it is our mightiest means of communing with reality, probing its mysteries, and gleaning from them some sense of belonging, of locating ourselves in the universe, understanding our place in it, and liberating ourselves from delusion.
MARIA POPOVA
"Poetry as Protest and Sanctuary", brainpickings, April 18, 2017
When I observe the luminous progress and expansion of natural science in modern times, I seem to myself like a traveller going eastwards at dawn, and gazing at the growing light with joy, but also with impatience; looking forward with longing to the advent of the full and final light, but, nevertheless, having to turn away his eyes when the sun appeared, unable to bear the splendour he had awaited with so much desire.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe
Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
The Doctor's Dilemma
Science has equipped man in less than fifty years with more tools than he had made during the thousands of years he had lived on earth. Each new machine being for man a new organ -- an artificial organ -- his body became suddenly and prodigiously increased in size, without his soul being at the same time able to dilate to the dimensions of his body.
HENRI BERGSON
Centennial of Engineering: History and Proceedings of Symposia: 1852-1952