Quotes on “science”

This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.

To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.

Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.

Riza: Without his Alchemy he's just...Jean: A little brat who swears a lotMaes: An arrogant pipsqueakRoy: Useless. Just uselessAlphonse: Sorry big brother, I don't know how to add to that...Ed *starts to cry*: YOU'RE ALL PICKING ON ME!!!

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

As to diseases, make a habit of two things — to help, or at least, to do no harm.

Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.

There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.

For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then?

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing, and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.

Highly organized research is guaranteed to produce nothing new.

A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.

He who is not satisfied with a little, is satisfied with nothing .

Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.