8,157 Quotes About Science

Anyone who values truth should stop worshipping reason.

Mankind flung its advance agents ever outward, ever outward. Eventually it flung them out into space, into the colorless, tasteless, weightless sea of outwardness without end. It flung them like stones.

It is important to view knowledge as sort of a semantic tree -- make sure you understand the fundamental principles, ie the trunk and big branches, before you get into the leaves/details or there is nothing for them to hang on to.

They didn't understand what they were doing.I'm afraid that will be on the tombstone of the human race.

Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult--at least I have found it so--than constantly to bear this conclusion in mind.

He laid the foundation of a universal government. His law was one for all. Equal justice and love for everyone.

In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth.

My dear Kepler, what would you say of the learned here, who, replete with the pertinacity of the asp, have steadfastly refused to cast a glance through the telescope? What shall we make of this? Shall we laugh, or shall we cry?

The planet is finished with us, at this point -