Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.
Thomas Szasz

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.
Miguel de Unamuno

True science teaches, above all, to doubt and to be ignorant.
Miguel de Unamuno

Society lives by faith, and develops by science.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
E. O. Wilson

If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
E. O. Wilson

By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
E. O. Wilson

Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
E. O. Wilson

Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.
Thomas Hobbes

We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.
Maria Montessori

Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
John Burroughs

If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.
John Burroughs

That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.
Bill Watterson

The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach.
Aleister Crowley

Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.
Aleister Crowley

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
Galileo Galilei

It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.
Galileo Galilei

We know from science that nothing in the universe exists as an isolated or independent entity.
Margaret J. Wheatley

The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.
Lord Acton

It seems to me that socialists today can preserve their position in academic economics merely by the pretense that the differences are entirely moral questions about which science cannot decide.
Friedrich August von Hayek