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Thomas Henry Huxley
"The improver of natural science absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, scepticism is the highest of duties: blind faith the one unpardonable sin." -
Lord Kelvin
"I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind." -
John Dewey
"Scientific principles and laws do not lie on the surface of nature. They are hidden, and must be wrested from nature by an active and elaborate technique of inquiry." -
Bertrand Russell
"Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own." -
John Dewey
"Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination." -
Albert Einstein
"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices, but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence and fulfills the duty to express the results of his thought in clear form." -
Max Planck
"An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature, and a measurement is the recording of Nature's answer." -
Albert Einstein
"It is important for the common good to foster individuality: for only the individual can produce the new ideas which the community needs for its continuous improvement and requirements - indeed, to avoid sterility and petrification." -
Edwin Powell Hubble
"Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science." -
G.W. Allport
"The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer. Indeed the measure of our intellectual maturity, one philosopher suggests, is our capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers to better problems." -
Albert Einstein
"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity." -
H.L. Mencken
"Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact." -
Robert K. Merton
"Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue." -
Claude Lévi-Strauss
"The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he's one who asks the right questions." -
Carl Sagan
"In science it often happens that scientists say, "You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken," and then they actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion." -
Isaac Asimov
"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom." -
Robert L. Park
"The greatest discoveries of science have always been those that forced us to rethink our beliefs about the universe and our place in it."
