Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [41-60] of 101 Science quotesScience QuotesScience Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Governor Thomas was so pleas'd with the Construction of this Stove, as describ'd in it, that he offer'd to give me a Patent for the sole Vending of them for a Term of Years; but I declin'd it from a Principle which has ever weigh'd with me on such Occasions, viz. That as we enjoy great Advantages from the Inventions of Others, we should be glad of an Opportunity to serve others by any Invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously.~ Benjamin Franklin If faith cannot be reconciled with rational thinking, it has to be eliminated as an anachronistic remnant of earlier stages of culture and replaced by science dealing with facts and theories which are intelligible and can be validated.~ Erich Fromm In questions of science the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.~ Galileo Galilei I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.~ Galileo Galilei The seven blunders that human society commits and cause all the violence: wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, and politics without principles.~ Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi The things that will destroy us are: politics without principle; pleasure without conscience; wealth without work; knowledge without character; business without morality; science without humanity; and worship without sacrifice.~ Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi Ever since the beginning of modern science, the best minds have recognized that "the range of acknowledged ignorance will grow with the advance of science." Unfortunately, the popular effect of this scientific advance has been a belief, seemingly shared by many scientists, that the range of our ignorance is steadily diminishing and that we can therefore aim at more comprehensive and deliberate control of all human activities. It is for this reason that those intoxicated by the advance of knowledge so often become the enemies of freedom.~ Friedrich August von Hayek Causes that live by politics, die by politics.~ Steven F. Hayward Whenever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.~ Heinrich Heine Truth, in its struggles for recognition, passes through four distinct stages. First, we say it is damnable, dangerous, disorderly, and will surely disrupt society. Second, we declare it is heretical, infidelic and contrary to the Bible. Third, we say it is really a matter of no importance either one way or the other. Fourth, we aver that we have always upheld it and believed it.~ Elbert Hubbard Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science, by rendering them my supreme delight. But the enormities of the times in which I have lived have forced me to commit myself on the boisterous ocean of political passions.~ Thomas Jefferson The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.~ Thomas Jefferson It is the great parent of science & of virtue: and that a nation will be great in both, always in proportion as it is free.~ Thomas Jefferson Where a new invention promises to be useful, it ought to be tried.~ Thomas Jefferson Botany I rank with the most valuable sciences.~ Thomas Jefferson During the course of administration, and in order to disturb it, the artillery of the press has been levelled against us, charged with whatsoever its licentiousness could devise or dare. These abuses of an institution so important to freedom and science are deeply to be regretted, inasmuch as they tend to lessen its usefulness and to sap its safety.~ Thomas Jefferson Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intelligence.~ Dr. Samuel Johnson Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.~ Immanuel Kant The truth is sometimes a poor competitor in the market place of ideas -- complicated, unsatisfying, full of dilemmas, always vulnerable to misinterpretation and abuse.~ George F. Kennan Engineering is thus a combination of brains and material -- the more brains the less material.~ Charles F. Kettering Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print