Science

"The most powerful influence exercised by the Arabs on general natural physics was that directed to the advances of chemistry ; a science for which this race created a new era.(...) Besides making laudatory mention of that which we owe to the natural science of the Arabs in both the terrestrial and celestial spheres, we must likewise allude to their contributions in separate paths of intellectual development to the general mass of mathematical science." Alexander von Humboldt

"Science is always simple and always profound. It is only the half-truths that are dangerous." George Bernard Shaw

"The science of booby-trapping has taken a good deal of the fun out of following hot on the enemy's heels." A. J. Liebling

"Whether you want to uncover the secrets of the universe, or you just want to pursue a career in the 21st century, basic computer programming is an essential skill to learn." Stephen W. Hawking

"Sometimes, even by accident, the universe makes beauty, and we can stand back in awe of it. Even better - we can figure out why. Science! I love this stuff." Philip Plait

"The business of a scientific school is the dissemination of useful knowledge, and this is a noble enterprise and indispensable withal; society can not exist unless it goes on." Albert Jay Nock

"I went through the standard scientific atheist phase when I was about 14. I bought into that package deal of science equals atheism." Rupert Sheldrake

"Though the world does not change with a change of paradigm, the scientist afterward works in a different world... I am convinced that we must learn to make sense of statements that at least resemble these. What occurs during a scientific revolution is not fully reducible to a re-interpretation of individual and stable data. In the first place, the data are not unequivocally stable." Thomas Kuhn

"Quantum physics tells us that nothing that is observed is unaffected by the observer. That statement, from science, holds an enormous and powerful insight. It means that everyone sees a different truth because everyone is creating what they see." Neale Donald Walsch

"We had learned how to invent things, and the question of why we invent things receded in importance. The idea that if something could be done it should be done was born in the nineteenth century. And along with it, there developed a profound belief in all the principles through which invention succeeds: objectivity, efficiency, expertise, standardization, measurement, and progress. It also came to be believed that the engine of technological progress worked most efficiently when people are conceived of not as children of God or even as citizens but as consumers-that is to say, as markets." Neil Postman

"The mass of the reading public is not interested in learning and assimilating the results of accurate investigation." Walter Lippmann

"To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth." H. P. Lovecraft

"History is the science of what never happens twice." Paul Valéry

"We may... have to relinquish the notion, explicit or implicit, that changes of paradigm carry scientists and those who learn from them closer and closer to the truth... The developmental process described in this essay has been a process of evolution from primitive beginnings-a process whose successive stages are characterized by an increasingly detailed and refined understanding of nature. But nothing that has been or will be said makes it a process of evolution toward anything." Thomas Kuhn