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The very nature of science is discoveries, and the best of those discoveries are the ones you don't expect. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Our public schools arbitrarily define science as explaining the world by natural processes alone. In essence, a religion of naturalism is being imposed on millions of students. They need to be taught the real nature of science, including its limitations. -- Ken Ham
The physics of motion provides one of the clearest examples of the counter-intuitive and unexpected nature of science. -- Lewis Wolpert
It must be admitted that scientists today take little interest in philosophy of science.... It is not an indication that philosophical issues are no longer relevant. Rather, it is a consequence of the increasingly specialized nature of science, and of the polarization between the sciences and humanities that characterizes the modern education system. -- Samir Okasha
Nature engenders the science of painting. -- Robert Delaunay
Science will liberate us from the chains of big cities and lead us back to nature. -- Lennart Meri
Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected. -- David Hume
Evolutionary psychology is one of four sciences that are bringing human nature back into the picture. -- Steven Pinker
The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature; its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos. -- William Irwin Thompson
Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature. -- Luther Burbank
Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.' -- W. H. Auden
Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves. -- Werner Heisenberg
From the dawn of history, science has probed the universe of unknowns, searching for the uniting laws of nature. -- Ahmed Zewail
Science is a perception of the world around us. Science is a place where what you find in nature pleases you. -- Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
We have failed to protect science against speculative extensions of nature, continuing to assign physical and mathematical properties to hypothetical entities beyond what is observable in nature. -- Robert Lanza
The methods and tools of science perennially breach barriers, granting me confidence that our epic march of insight into the operations of nature will continue without end. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
We propose in the following Treatise to give an outline of the Science which treats of the Nature, the Production, and the Distribution of Wealth. To that Science we give the name of Political Economy. -- Nassau William Senior
The central task of science is to arrive, stage by stage, at a clearer comprehension of nature, but this does not at all mean, as it is sometimes claimed to mean, a search for mastery over nature. -- Lewis Thomas
I don't think you can impose limits on science because the very nature of homo sapiens is that he - she - is an inquisitive species. You can't control science. You have to control the effects of science. -- Robert Winston
Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters. -- Pope Paul VI
All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers, so that the aim of exact science is to reduce the problems of nature to the determination of quantities by operations with numbers. -- James C. Maxwell
It will, of course, be understood that directly or indirectly, soon or late, every advance in the sciences of human nature will contribute to our success in controlling human nature and changing it to the advantage of the common weal. -- Edward Thorndike
Nature engenders the science of painting -- Robert Delaunay
Science, Nature,-O, I've yearned to open some page. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man is the interpreter of nature, science the right interpretation. -- William Whewell
Science is the key which unlocks the storehouses of nature. -- Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel
Science still won't explain the mysterious nature of love and despair. -- Andrew Solomon
Science is about nature. And God, if he exists, transcends nature. -- Kenneth R. Miller
The history of science is the saga of nature defying common sense. -- Kedar Joshi
Nature is earlier than man, but man is earlier than natural science. -- Carl Friedrich von Weizsacker
Rule of science: only exclude purpose, and Nature will reveal her causes. -- Mason Cooley
Science simply cannot adjudicate the issue of God's possible superintendence of nature. -- Stephen Jay Gould
All science has one aim, namely, to find a theory of nature. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The man of science multiples the points of contact between man and nature. -- Anatole France
Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a re-creation of her. -- Jacob Bronowski
Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history. -- John Henry Newman
Philosophically, mathematics is not a part of science. Mathematics studies patterns, science studies nature -- Lynn Steen
But science is the collection of nature's answers; the humanities the collection of men's thoughts. -- Gavin de Beer
The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it. -- Barry Commoner
Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science by rendering them my supreme delight. -- Thomas Jefferson
Science can give us power over nature, but it cannot give us power over human nature. -- Thomas Szasz
Mathematics is the science of patterns, and nature exploits just about every pattern that there is. -- Ian Stewart
Chess is neither a science nor an art. It is what human nature most delights in--a fight. -- Emanuel Lasker
Our goal in science is to discover universal laws of nature. That pursuit fills me with wonder. -- Bill Nye
It's actually a very unpleasant experience to read a Nature paper, or to read a Science paper. -- Randy Schekman
'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.' -- W. H. Auden
Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves -- Werner Heisenberg
You shouldn't be afraid of science. Accepting the reality of nature makes life more exciting and even more precious. -- Lawrence M. Krauss
An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature and a measurement is the recording of Nature's answer. -- Max Planck
Science attempts to find logic and simplicity in nature. Mathematics attempts to establish order and simplicity in human thought. -- Edward Teller
A life spent in the routine of science need not destroy the attractive human element of a woman's nature. -- Annie Jump Cannon
The beauty of science and the nature of scientific revelations constitute part of the modern theologian's perspective and toolbox. -- Joseph Silk
When science drove the gods out of nature, they took refuge in poetry and the porticos of civic buildings. -- Mason Cooley
[Scientific humanism is] the only worldview compatible with science's growing knowledge of the real world and the laws of nature. -- Edward O. Wilson
I'm a big fan of science fiction, animation, and things of that nature. Other worlds and that type of stuff. -- Lupe Fiasco
Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it. -- Camille Paglia
Modern science fiction is the only form of literature that consistently considers the nature of the changes that face us. -- Isaac Asimov
We need science. We need empirical evidence. We can't just use mathematical reasoning to deduce the nature of the world. -- Rebecca Goldstein
Science must acknowledge truthfully how much it doesn't know and leave room for mystery, miracles, and the wisdom of nature. -- Christiane Northrup
Science is a process for learning about nature in which competing ideas about how the world works are measured against observations. -- Richard P. Feynman
Metaphysics attempts to discover the ultimate nature of reality, and in this sense, the innerspace of science fiction is metaphysical fiction. -- Kate Wilhelm
The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their materialism. -- H. P. Blavatsky
The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their materialism. -- H. P. Blavatsky
Fortunate Newton, happy childhood of science. Nature to him was an open book. He stands before us strong, certain, and alone. -- Albert Einstein
Painting is a science pursued as an enquiry into the laws of nature...Observation is considered the key to natural science. -- Bridget Riley
You could write the entire history of science in the last 50 years in terms of papers rejected by Science or Nature. -- Paul Lauterbur
Any device in science is a window on to nature, and each new window contributes to the breadth of our view. -- C. F. Powell
Science and Truth are simple phenomenon of nature, but it is the known that is preventing us from mastering the unknown. -- Chandrakanth Natekar
Science and Truth are simple phenomenon of nature, but it is the known that is preventing us from mastering the unknown." -- Chandrakanth Natekar
Astronomy ... is of all others the science which seems to present to us the most striking instance of waste in nature. -- Richard A. Proctor
Any device in science is a window on to nature, and each new window contributes to the breadth of our view. -- C. F. Powell
Science is the ultimate tool to reveal the laws of nature, and the one word written on its banner is Truth. -- Dan Shechtman
We've been given a warning by science, and a wake-up call by nature; it is up to us now to heed them. -- Bill McKibben
Plutus himself, That knows the tinct and multiplying med'cine, Hath not in nature's mystery more science Than I have in this ring. -- William Shakespeare
I find it very sad that by the time corporate science realizes the value of nature, that it may be too late -- Steven Magee
What is science but the pursuit of the truth? What is Buddhism but 2500 years of observation as to the nature of mind? -- Wade Davis
The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator. Science brings men nearer to God. -- Louis Pasteur
Nature is our kindest friend and best critic in experimental science if we only allow her intimations to fall unbiased on our minds. -- Michael Faraday
The illusion of purpose and design is perhaps the most pervasive illusion about nature that science has to confront on a daily basis. -- Lawrence M. Krauss
All that man needs for health and healing has been provided by God in nature, the Challenge of science is to find it. -- Paracelsus
[Geology] opens up such wide intellectual vistas and supplies a more perfectly unified and more comprehensive conception of nature than any other science. -- Rosa Luxemburg
It is necessary for the very existence of science that minds exist which do not allow that nature must satisfy some preconceived conditions. -- Richard P. Feynman
From my perspective, God cannot be completely contained within nature, and therefore God's existence is outside of science's ability to really weigh in. -- Richard Dawkins
Diversity creates harmony, and harmony creates beauty, balance, bounty and peace in nature and society, in agriculture and culture, in science and in politics. -- Vandana Shiva
The Science Delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality in principle leaving only the details to be filled in. -- Rupert Sheldrake
In nature, when you conduct science, it is the natural world that is the ultimate decider in what is true and what is not. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
There is no such thing as political science, but there are tenancies so strong that they might as well be called laws of nature. -- Jeff Greenfield
We have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind put into nature. -- Arthur Eddington
It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature. -- Albert Einstein
One of the first and most difficult steps in a science is to conceive clearly the nature of the magnitudes about which we are arguing. -- William Stanley Jevons
While science can be many things, above all it is a way for our mistake-making, illusion-prone, storytelling brains to compare different methods for describing nature. -- Mike McRae
I say you don't need religion, or political ideology, to understand human nature. Science reveals that human nature is greedy and selfish, altruistic and helpful. -- Michael Shermer
Religious illusion must bow to scientific truth. It is in total error about the nature of the true world. Only science is not an illusion. -- Sigmund Freud
I am always struck by the fact that human awareness of our place in nature, like so much of modern science, began with the Industrial Revolution. -- Kenneth R. Miller
Our Western science, ever since the 17th century, has been obsessed with the notion of control, of man dominating nature. This obsession has led to disaster. -- Fritjof Capra
Mathematics, the non-empirical science par excellence . . . the science of sciences, delivering the key to those laws of nature and the universe which are concealed by appearances. -- Hannah Arendt
Go on, fair Science; soon to thee Shall Nature yield her idle boast; Her vulgar lingers formed a tree, But thou hast trained it to a post. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The rigour of science requires that we distinguish well the undraped figure of Nature itself from the gay-coloured vesture with which we clothe her at our pleasure. -- Heinrich Hertz
The scarcity that afflicts the world is not the fault of either science or nature. The cause is defective economic institutions which abort technology's affluence producing potential. -- Louis O. Kelso
Whether in the intellectual pursuits of science or in the mystical pursuits of the spirit, the light beckons ahead, and the purpose surging in our nature responds. -- Arthur Eddington
Whether in the intellectual pursuits of science or in the mystical pursuits of the spirit, the light beckons ahead, and the purpose surging in our nature responds. -- Arthur Eddington
The essential fact is that all the pictures which science now draws of nature, and which alone seem capable of according with observational facts, are mathematical pictures. -- James Jeans
There can be no law of nature, no science,No aberrant infliction of human willThat unchained the soul cannot conquer,Simply sweep away, should it chose to. -- Scott Hastie
The transformation of nature, a total fusion of science, art and technology in a sublime statement of human dignity and intelligence through the settlements we build for ourselves. -- Paulo Mendes da Rocha
Thinking withdraws radically and for its own sake from this world and its evidential nature, whereas science profits from a possible withdrawal for the sake of specific results. -- Hannah Arendt
There's something really beautiful about science, that human beings can ask these questions and can answer them. You can make models of nature and understand how it works. -- Margaret Geller
Morals were too essential to the happiness of man, to be risked on the uncertain combinations of the head. Nature laid their foundation, therefore, in sentiment, not in science. -- Thomas Jefferson
History, as it lies at the root of all science, is also the first distinct product of man's spiritual nature, his earliest expression of what may be called thought. -- Thomas Carlyle
Science is a mechanism, a way of trying to improve your knowledge of nature. It's a system for testing your thoughts against the universe, and seeing whether they match. -- Isaac Asimov
The more we study nature the grander does she appear. Science, by penetrating her secrets, often shows us the hidden and imposing forces exist where we only see inertia. -- Felix Archimede Pouchet
Science is like a love affair with nature; an elusive, tantalising mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists and turns of romantic love, but that's part of the game. -- Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Science is like a love affair with nature; an elusive, tantalising mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists and turns of romantic love, but thats part of the game. -- Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature. -- Jacob Bronowski
Science is a method of logical analysis of nature's operations. It has lessened human anxiety about the cosmos by demonstrating the materiality of nature's forces, and their frequent predictability. -- Camille Paglia
Because of their very nature, science and logical thinking can never decide what is possible or impossible. Their only function is to explain what has been ascertained by experience and observation. -- Rudolf Steiner

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