SCIENCE

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1. Science falsely so called.—Bible, 1 Timothy 6:20
   

2. In science, address the few, in literature the many. In science, the few must dictate opinion to the many; in literature, the many, sooner or later, force their judgment on the few.—BULWER-LYTTON, Caxtonia
   

3. When one longs for a drink, it seems as though one could drink a whole ocean—that is faith; but when one begins to drink one can drink altogether two glasses—that is science.—ANTON CHEKHOV
   

4. In science we must be interested in things, not in persons.—MARIE CURIE, Curie: Madame Curie
   

5. There were no patents. We were working in the interests of science. Radium was not to enrich anyone. Radium is an element. It belongs to all people.—MARIE CURIE, Pierre Curie
   

6. The discoveries of Nobel—powerful explosives, have made it possible for men to achieve admirable things, but they are also a terrible means of destruction in the hands of those great criminals who draw nations into war. I am among those who believe with Nobel that humanity will obtain more good than evil from future discoveries.—PIERRE CURIE, Address: Nobel Conference, 1903
   

7. It is possible to conceive that in criminal hands radium might prove very dangerous, and the question therefore, arises whether it be to the advantage of humanity to know the secrets of nature, whether we be sufficiently mature to profit by them, or whether that knowledge may not prove harmful.—PIERRE CURIE, Address: Nobel Conference, 1903
   

8. By your works you may be known. Your triumphs in the mechanical arts are the obverse of your failure in all that calls for spiritual insight.—G. LOWES DICKINSON, Letters from a Chinese Official
   

9. I believe in the scientific spirit, but I dislike the scientific manner when it forsakes the ponderable for the imponderable values.—ELLEN GLASGOW, I Believe
   

10. While bright-eyed Science watches round.—THOMAS GRAY, Ode for Music
    

11. Science is vastly more stimulating to the imagination than are the
    classics.—J. B. S. HALDANE, Daedalus
    

12. The cultural claims of science rest on the social fact that the use and misuse of science intimately affects the everyday life of every citizen in a modern community.—LANCELOT HOGBEN, Dangerous Thoughts
    

13. Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two has the grander view?—VICTOR HUGO, Les Miserables
    

14. The cradle of every science is surrounded by dead theologians as that of Hercules was with strangled serpents.—THOMAS H. HUXLEY
    

15. Science, particularly mathematics, though it seems less practical and less real than the news contained in the latest radio dispatches, appears to be building the one permanent and stable edifice in an age where all others are either crumbling or being blown to bits.—KASNER 8Z NEWMAN, Mathematics & the Imagination
    

16. Thus, in a certain sense, the popularization of science is a duty to be performed, a duty to give courage and comfort to the men and women of good-will everywhere who are generally losing their faith in the life of reason. For most of the sciences the veil of mystery is gradually being torn asunder.—KASNER 8z NEWMAN, Mathematics & the Imagination
    

17. The rise of science has undoubtedly filled mankind with a new vision of, a new hope for, and a new effort toward a better human existence than the world has known in the past. If this is exalting the material over the spiritual then she must again plead guilty.—ROBERT A. MILLIKAN
    

18. The next great task of Science is to create a religion for humanity.—JOHN MORLEY, Essays
    

19. The scientist has always appealed to me because in the artistic world, which today lacks all standards, it is a relief to come across a mind which accepts nothing but fact and is even doubtful of that; which realizes that nothing can be established without constant experiment. Unlike literary people, scientists know what people are really like, and they accept humanity as it is, without that censoriousness which seems the main urge of many writers.—C. R. W. NEVINSON
    

20. I chiefly owe to my illustrious teacher, Thomas Henry Huxley, the conviction that devotion to pure scientific research and fellowship with the scientific fraternity do not release one from his duty to his less fortunate fellowmen and to the community in which he lives.—HENRY F. OSBORN, Evolution
    

21. In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.—SIR WILLIAM OSLER, Life of Sir William Osler
    

22. Science expresses in human terms our dynamic relation to surrounding reality.—SANTAYANA, I Believe
    

23. Science is always wrong. It never solves a problem without creating ten more.—BERNARD SHAW
    

24. What is the sum of physical science? Compared with the comprehensible universe and with conceivable time, not to speak of infinity and eternity, it is the observation of a mere point, the experience of an instant.—GOLDWIN SMITH, The Study of History
    

25. Science carries us into zones of speculation, where there is no habitable city for the mind of man.—STEVENSON, Pulvis et Umbra
    

26. The development of modern science is secured not by the progress of any special branch of knowledge, but rather by the united efforts of various sciences and their mutual assistance in this striving forward.—SUN YAT-SEN, Memoirs of a Chinese Revolutionary
    

27. In all science error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.—SIR ROBERT WALPOLE
    

28. Science is even more changeable than theology. No man of science could subscribe without qualification to Galileo's beliefs, or to Newton's beliefs, or to all his own scientific beliefs of ten years ago.—ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD