Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.
Charles Kettering

Polygraph tests are 20th-century witchcraft.
Sam Ervin

Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
Wernher von Braun

Sadly, embryonic stem cell research is completely legal in this country and has been going on at universities and research facilities for years.
Mike Pence

Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.
Arthur M. Schlesinger

Science does not know its debt to imagination.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.
Jean Rostand

Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Carl Sagan

Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.
Thomas Huxley

Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
Thomas Huxley

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
Adam Smith

Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question "How?" but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question "Why?"
Erwin Chargaff

Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.
George Bernard Shaw

Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.
Wilhelm Reich

Scientists worldwide agree that the reduction needed to stabilize the climate is actually more like 80 percent.
Donella Meadows

Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good.
John Charles Polanyi

Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.
James D. Watson