More quotations tagged with “science”
The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.
—Stephen Jay Gould
In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not the man to whom the idea first occurs.
—Sir William Bragg
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
As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
—Paul Dirac
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