Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers. —Sir Francis Darwin More about this quote Tags: science Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations tagged with “science” As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss. —Paul Dirac More about this quote Tags: science Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. —Noam Chomsky More about this quote Tags: science Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it. It must be done for itself, for the beauty of science, and then there is always the chance that a scientific discovery may become like the radium a benefit for humanity. —Marie Curie More about this quote Tags: science Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale. —Marie Curie More about this quote Tags: science Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science. —Louis Pasteur More about this quote Tags: science Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss. —Paul Dirac More about this quote Tags: science Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. —Noam Chomsky More about this quote Tags: science Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it. It must be done for itself, for the beauty of science, and then there is always the chance that a scientific discovery may become like the radium a benefit for humanity. —Marie Curie More about this quote Tags: science Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale. —Marie Curie More about this quote Tags: science Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science. —Louis Pasteur More about this quote Tags: science Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email