“We especially need imagination in science.”
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“Intelligence is not a science.”
“Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.”
“Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.”
“Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.”
“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
“Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.”
“Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.”
“Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.”
“All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious in that no one's brain rejects it for laymen and people who are utterly illiterate know how to count and reckon.”
“There are in fact two things, science and opinion the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance.”
“Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ.”
“Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.”
“Science is organized knowledge.”
“There's no question that as science, knowledge and technology advance, that we will attempt to do more significant things. And there's no question that we will always have to temper those things with ethics.”
“Faulkner is a writer who has had much to do with my soul, but Hemingway is the one who had the most to do with my craft - not simply for his books, but for his astounding knowledge of the aspect of craftsmanship in the science of writing.”
“Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.”
“Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.”
“To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population.”
“The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.”
“From all this it follows what the general character of the problem of the development of a body of scientific knowledge is, in so far as it depends on elements internal to science itself.”
“Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature.”
“If, on occasion, the knowledge brought by science leads to an unhappy end, this is not to the discredit of science but is rather an indication of an imperfect ability to use wisely the gifts placed within our hands.”
“Is there anything science should not try to explain? Science is knowledge and knowledge is power - power to do good or evil. Sometimes ignorance is bliss.”