Definition of “science”

Quotations

• "Art is meant to disturb. Science reassures" Georges Braque
• "Science is the record of dead religions" Oscar Wilde
• "Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. The rest is literature" Paul Valéry
• "Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense" T.H. Huxley
• "Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men" Martin Luther King
• "the great tragedy of Science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact" T.H. Huxley
• "the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer" Jacob Bronowski
• "In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs" Francis Darwin
• "Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers" Arthur Eddington
• "Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind" Albert Einstein
• "There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science" Louis Pasteur
• "Science is built up of facts, as a house is built of stones; but an accumulation of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house" Henri Poincaré
• "Science must begin with myths, and the criticism of myths" Karl Popper