“The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.”
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“It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.”
“In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.”
“Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10.”
“Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.”
“Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.”
“Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.”
“The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.”
“To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.”
“Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.”
“Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.”
“Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.”
“Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.”
“Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.”
“Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah.”
“Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing.”
“Ecclesiasticism in science is only unfaithfulness to truth.”
“No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life.”
“The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach.”
“Everything is fraught with danger. I love technology and I love science. It's just always all in the way you use it. So there's no - you can't really blame anything on the technology. It's just the way people use it, and it always has been.”
“There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition.”
“Einstein was searching for String Theory. It not only reconciles General Relativity to Quantum Mechanics, but it reconciles Science and the Bible as well.”
“We must revisit the idea that science is a methodology and not an ontology.”
“'Snow White' is an old fairy tale, so obviously the idea of vanity and obsession with youth is long-standing. With today's science, people have become crazy with trying to move their face around. It's bizarre.”