(216 quotes found)
“On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation”
Charles Darwin
“A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.”
“Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20 - 20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can't tell you where you ought to go.”
Robert M. Pirsig
“You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin, and even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things.”
Henry David Thoreau
“The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.”
Claude Levi-Strauss
“You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.”
Walker Percy
“In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.”
Charles Lindbergh
“Anthropology provides a scientific basis for dealing with the crucial dilemma of the world today: how can peoples of different appearance... and dissimilar ways of life get along peaceably together?”
Clyde Kluckhohn
“What happened at Hiroshima was not only that a scientific breakthrough had occurred and that a great part of the population of a city had been burned to death, but that the problem of the relation of the triumphs of modern science to the human purposes of man had been explicitly defined.”
Archibald MacLeish
“Only by strict specialization can the scientific worker become fully conscious, for once and perhaps never again in his lifetime, that he has achieved something that will endure. A really definitive and good accomplishment is today always a specialized act.”
Max Weber
