Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.
William Blake

Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.
Pope John Paul II

He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.
William Blake

The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.
William Blake

Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ.
John Calvin

The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science.
James Madison

There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.
Thomas A. Edison

The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired.
Stephen Hawking

The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?
Stephen Hawking

Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.
Blaise Pascal

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
Noam Chomsky

But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history of scientific ideas, rather than laboratory experience.
Richard Dawkins

It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.
Richard Dawkins

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.
Milton Friedman

He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I've lost my faith in science.
Bette Davis

Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.
Jean-Paul Sartre