“Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.”
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“Theology is a science of mind applied to God.”
“Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.”
“Science does not know its debt to imagination.”
“Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control.”
“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.”
“Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.”
“It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.”
“Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.”
“If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.”
“Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.”
“Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.”
“The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.”
“Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.”
“Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.”
“Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.”
“A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.”
“Touch a scientist and you touch a child.”
“If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.”
“I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.”
“Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.”
“Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.”
“Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce.”
“Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.”