“Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural.”
“Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money of them.”
“That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.”
“Science has been seriously retarded by the study of what is not worth knowing and of what is not knowable.”
“Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world.”
“Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon compounds that crawl.”
“Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; but a belief is always sensitive.”
“Truth in science can best be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.”
“Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.”
“It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.”
“Science is simply common sense at its best--that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.”
“Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.”
“Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.”
“Neurophysiologists will not likely find what they are looking for, for that which they are looking for is that which is looking.”
“When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.”
“Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought.”
“Science has ''explained'' nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.”
“If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.”
“A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that he is going to be a beginner all his life.”
“Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition.”
“We have genuflected before the god of science only to find that it has given us the atomic bomb, producing fears and anxieties that science can never mitigate.”
“The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations.”
“Formal symbolic representation of qualitative entities is doomed to its rightful place of minor significance in a world where flowers and beautiful women abound.”
“There is not much that even the most socially responsible scientists can do as individuals, or even as a group, about the social consequences of their activities.”
“Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science.”
“Science is analytical, descriptive, informative. Man does not live by bread alone, but by science he attempts to do so. Hence the deadliness of all that is purely scientific.”
“Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved.”
“Science is the century-old endeavor to bring together by means of systematic thought the perceptible phenomena of this world into as thorough-going an association as possible.”
“Whether a person shows themselves to be a genius in science or in writing a song, the only point is, whether the thought, the discovery, or the deed, is living and can live on.”
“Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.”