"Science is what you know. Philosophy is what you don't know" BERTRAND RUSSELL
"Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature" JACOB BRONOWSKI
"The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions" CLAUDE LEVI-STRAUSS
Science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of it's domain value judgments of all kinds remain necessary" ALBERT EINSTEIN
"Science is the disinterested search for the objective truth about the material world" RICHARD DAWKINS
"Four stages of acceptance:
i)this is worthless nonsense,
ii)this is an interesting but perverse point of view,
iii)this is true but quite unimportant,
i) I always said so." J.B.S. HALDANE
"A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master when he has learned that he is going to be a beginner all his life." ROBIN G. COLLINGWOOD
"The climate system is an angry beast and we are poking it with sticks." - WALLY BROECKER
"You are disturbing me, I am picking mushrooms" GREGORI PERELMAN
Some good ones there. How about;
ReplyDeleteEquipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science. ~Edwin Powell Hubble
There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact. ~Mark Twain
Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition. ~Adam Smith
Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue. ~Robert K. Merton
There are no physicists in the hottest parts of hell, because the existence of a 'hottest part' implies a temperature difference, and any marginally competent physicist would immediately use this to run a heat engine and make some other part of hell comfortably cool. This is obviously impossible. ~Richard Davisson
The doubter is a true man of science; he doubts only himself and his interpretations, but he believes in science. ~Claude Bernard
Life preys upon life. This is biology's most fundamental fact. ~Martin H. Fischer
Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact. ~H.L. Mencken
In science it often happens that scientists say, "You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken," and then they actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion. ~Carl Sagan
Physics isn't a religion. If it were, we'd have a much easier time raising money. ~Leon Lederman
It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics and chemistry. ~H.L. Mencken