“Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are part of nature and therefore part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.”
— Max Planck
“Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.”
— Louis Pasteur
“The great tragedy of Science — the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.”
— Thomas Henry Huxley
“Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification — the art of discerning what we may with advantage omit.”
— Karl Popper
“It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they are found because it was possible to find them.”
— J. Robert Oppenheimer
“Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts.”
— Heinz Pagels
“Science is not indeed a perfect instrument, but it is a superb and invaluable tool that works harm only when it is taken as an end in itself.”
— Carl Jung
“Though many have tried, no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science, which can do so much, cannot decide what it ought to do.”
— Joseph Wood Krutch
“If in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behoves us to place the foundations of knowledge in mathematics.”
— Roger Bacon
“Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.”
— Bertolt Brecht
“Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.”
— Donald Knuth