Science

"today's multilayered theoretical edifice of the big bang paradigm would turn out to be a confusing mix of fictional beasts invented to uphold the model, along with empirically valid variables mutually reliant on each other to the point of making it impossible to sort science from fiction." Bjørn Ekeberg

"Each new discrepancy between observation and theory can, of course, in and of itself be considered an exciting promise of more research, a progressive refinement toward the truth. But when they add up, they could also suggest a more confounding problem that is not resolved by tweaking parameters or adding new variables." Bjørn Ekeberg

"The making of adaptable, curious, open, questioning people has nothing to do with vocational training and everything to do with humanistic and scientific studies." Neil Postman

"They're both the same. An astrophysicist looking out there is thinking in terms of science fiction." William Shatner

"Science that fails to embrace all living beings is far more dangerous than any virus!" Steve Simmons

"If we fail to find any of this—even at the highest energies we can reach—then we’ll have to do some serious rethinking and essentially start over from scratch. Which, of course, is exciting in its own way. Science is always exciting: if you don’t find anything, you simply have to come up with something new. Imagination is always the foundation of science." Wolfram Zeuner

"The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart." Walter Lippmann

"As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying." Arthur C. Clarke

"I have been a scientist for more than 40 years, having studied at Cambridge and Harvard. I researched and taught at Cambridge University, was a research fellow of the Royal Society, and have more than 80 publications in peer-reviewed journals. I am strongly pro-science." Rupert Sheldrake

"Scientific understanding is our joy. Economic and political understanding is our duty." Henry A. Wallace

"'Science in itself' is nothing, for it exists only in the human beings who are its bearers. 'Science for its own sake' usually means nothing more than science for the sake of the people who happen to be pursuing it." Rudolf Virchow

"Science is essentially an anarchic enterprise: theoretical anarchism is more humanitarian and more likely to encourage progress than its law-and-order alternatives." Paul Feyerabend

"The historian of science may be tempted to exclaim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them." Thomas Kuhn

"The expectation of substantive unity between natural science and social science has faded.... Gone is the cosmic intention of placing man in the universe." Allan Bloom