Thence results, for science as well as for industry, the necessity of the division and association of labor. I receive and I give - such is human life. Each directs and is directed in his turn.
Mikhail Bakunin

The humanities need to be defended to-day against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.
Irving Babbitt

The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.
Walter Lippmann

History is the science of things which are not repeated.
Paul Valery

Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.
Paul Valery

Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.
Edmund Hillary

Man is unique not because he does science, and his is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind.
Jacob Bronowski

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 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.
Jacob Bronowski

That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.
Jacob Bronowski

The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself.
Jacob Bronowski

No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.
Jacob Bronowski

The violent reaction on the recent development of modern physics can only be understood when one realises that here the foundations of physics have started moving; and that this motion has caused the feeling that the ground would be cut from science.
Werner Heisenberg

Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves.
Werner Heisenberg

I have seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.
Charles Lindbergh

When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years.
Denis Diderot

Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
Karl Popper

Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.
Karl Popper

Medical science has proven time and again that when the resources are provided, great progress in the treatment, cure, and prevention of disease can occur.
Michael J. Fox

There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition.
Rod Serling